Evan Tanner ran head-first into a piece of shrapnel in Korea, and now he can't sleep. Ever. Which can be an asset for a dedicated linguist, term paper forger, thief, lost cause enthusiast . . . Spy.
Set in a tiny Czech community on the shores of LostLake, these stories chronicle three generations ofmen and women under the spell of a landscape with apowerful history. Mark Slouka explores both the
Series Editors: Howard Hotson, St Anne's College, Oxford, and Vladimir Urbanek, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, PragueThe fission of the western Church in the Reformation era released great
Nearly lost to censorship, this rediscovered gem of Czech literature by renowned Holocaust memoirist Heda Margolius Kovaly depicts a chilling moment in history, redolent with the stifling atmosphere o
In a nativist near-future America obsessed with eternal life and under the increasing threat of technological surveillance, a long-lost brother and sister risk everything to reclaim their mother from oblivion.“Kalfař is a wise, rapturous, and original writer . . . Eloquent, heart-stunning, and rich in awe-inspiring prose.”―San Francisco Chronicle “Relentlessly inventive . . . His writing has the same hyperactivity and fidgety contempt for generic boundaries as that of the young Safran Foer.”―The GuardianWhen Adéla discovers she has a terminal illness, her thoughts turn to Tereza, the daughter she gave up at birth, decades earlier. Leaving behind her troubled son, Roman, in their native Czech village, she flies to New York in hopes of a long-awaited reunion with her daughter. But the America of 2029, with its authoritarian government and closed borders, is a different place from the open country she experienced as a young woman, when she eloped with a filmmaker and starred in his cult s
