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    The Joke

    Milan Kundera

    The Joke, Milan Kundera’s first novel, of which Salman Rushdie wrote ‘It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful novel. The…

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    Adventures In Immediate Irreality

    Max Blecher

    Often called the Kafka of Romania, Max Blecher died young but not before creating this incandescent novel.

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    Milan Kundera

    Offers a wide range of philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles. This book draws together the Czechoslovakia of the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion, the…

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    My Century

    Gunter Grass

    One hundred stories, each named after a year this century. In one, Erich Maria Remarque gives his views on World War I, in another former Nazis reflect on the good…

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    Encyclopaedia of the Dead

    Danilo Kis

    This collection of short stories depicts human relationships, encounters, landscapes and the multitude of details that make up human life.

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    A Bohemian Youth

    Josef Hirsal

    A romp through the life of a young man born into a Bohemian peasant family, told in five parts. It begins with a word to the wise , followed by…

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    Peeling the Onion

    Gunter Grass

    A memoir that evokes Gunter Grass’ modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and concludes with the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum…

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    Novel with Cocaine

    M. Ageyev,Michael Henry Heim

    The story of an adolescent’s cocaine addiction, Novel with Cocaine relates the formative experiences of its antihero, Vadim, at school and with women before turning to the experience of drug…

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    Early Sorrows: Memoir

    Michael Henry Heim,Danilo Kis

    A group of linked stories that memorialize Danilo Kis’s early years in a Yugoslavian village. The 19 pieces cover his crucial first bereavements and humiliations, striking various tones - from…

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    Prague Tales

    Jan Neruda

    A collection of Jan Neruda’s intimate, wry, bitter-sweet stories of life among the inhabitants of Mala Strana, the Little Quarter of 19th century Prague. Prague Tales influence has been acknowledged…

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    Anton Chekhov’s Life and Thought: Selected Letters and Commentaries

    Michael Henry Heim

    This collection of Chekov’s correspondence is weighted heavily toward the letters dealing with literary and intellectual matters. It provides insight into Chekov’s development as a writer.

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    The Book Of Blam

    Aleksandar Tisma,Charles Simic,Michael Henry Heim

    The war is over. Miroslav Blam walks along the former Jew Street, and he remembers. He remembers Aaron Grun, the hunchbacked watchmaker; and Eduard Fiker, a lamp merchant; and Jakob…

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    Lend Me Your Character

    Dubravka Ugresic

    Splendidly ambitious … A brilliant, enthralling spread of story-telling and high-velocity reflections. In her indignation and in her sorrow Ugresic speaks for many people, many experiences. She is a writer…

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    The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure

    Hans Magnus Enzensberger

    An international best-seller that does for maths what Sophie’s World did for philosophy.

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    The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure

    Hans Magnus Enzensberger

    In 12 dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, encounters a sly, clever number devil who introduces him to the wonders of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, and…

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    A Certain Finkelmeyer

    Feliks Roziner Heim,Michael Henry

    Aaron-Chaim Mendelevich Finkelmeyer is a Jew and a poet who works for the Ministries of Fisheries in Siberia. Because of his heritage, the only way he can get his work…

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