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My Czech dream-book

Alexander Balogh

Journalist and writer Alexander Balogh publishes his next work entitled My Czech dream-book. However, it is not about the interpretation of dreams, but about the experiences of meeting selected artists and their works, which resemble pleasant and instruct

Fjarvera þín er myrkur

Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Panenka

Rónán Hession

Fifty-year-old Joseph used to play football, but for the past 25 years he has suffered from mistakes he made in the past. But now he decided to start over again.

Simon

Narine Abgarian

Lessons of the Masters

George Steiner

Keflavik Saga

Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Summer

Ali Smith

The soul of Hegel and the cows of Wisconsin

Alessandro Baricco

Jefferson

Jean-Claude Mourlevat

Three apples fell from the sky

Narine Abgarian

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

Man

Ester Weissová-Fekete

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

Home

Judith Hermann

To Be a Man

Nicole Krauss

Who Doesn't

Claudia Piñeiro

Spring

Ali Smith

A Glitch at the Edge of the Galaxy

Etgar Keret

Prasina 3. White Chamber

Vojtěch Matocha

East Prussian Diary

Hans Graf von Lehndorff

Life plays with me

David Grossman

The Lost Soul

Olga Tokarczuk

The first book by the nobelist Olga Tokarczuk, who speaks to the reader not only in words but also in pictures.

Unknown unknown

Mark Forsyth

The Festival of Insignificance

Milan Kundera

Market Agent

Oleg Sencov

Story of Asta

Jón Kalman Stefánsson

This is a story about love, sensuality and sex. About the Icelandic countryside, poetry and the desire to know the world. About children, those kept by their parents and those raised by strangers. About life and death. And Ásta.

Winter

Ali Smith

​The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith's essential Seasonal Quartet — from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be both.

Autumn

Ali Smith

Prašina 2: Čierny merkurit

Vojtěch Matocha

Spiatočka

István Kerékgyártó

Liar

Ajelet Gundar-Gošen

A delightfully outrageous novel about a sexual assault scandal by the internationally celebrated, prize-winning author of Waking Lions and One Night, Markovitch.

Alef

Jorge Luis Borges

Prašina

Vojtěch Matocha

Prašina is a mysterious place: a dark island in the middle of glowing Prague. An extraordinarily exciting story familiar to Jaroslav Foglar's style.

Lola's Book

Anna Ötvös

The Only Story

Julian Barnes

Atlas of Forgetting

Peter Krištúfek

The book of the matters which we have forgotten, we wanted to forget, which had to be forgotten, and which we can not remember.

The Immortalists

Chloe Benjamin

Dinner at the center of the earth

Nathan Englander

In a sense, it's a political thriller which becomes a metaphysical with features of magic realism or even a historical novel and then grows into a love story. And when you find yourself in this love story, you will find it an allegory.

Forest Dark

Nicole Krauss

The latest novel by Nicole Krauss about searching for meaning, transcendence, and where we really belong.

Everything I dont remember

Jonas Hassen Khemiri

A detective novel about finding the truth in the mosaic of different people talking about one person

Fictions

Jorge Luis Borges

Strange truths and fables of the green world

Jiří Dvořák

This book is for all children who want more than a simple explanation and they often ask their parents: Why? Why are there ants on an acacia tree, why does nettle stings, why do onions makes eyes tear? Why do flowers need roots in the ground? What was the

Timeline

Peter Goes

Wandering through history presented on 80 large pages of abounding pictures and interesting facts.

Almost the Same Size as the Universe

Jón Kalman Stefánsson

A family saga chronicles joy and pain, passion and suffering, loyalty and failure, life and death, proximity and astray, and love in its diverse forms.

Retrotopia

Zygmunt Bauman

The final book by Zygmunt Bauman.

Manaraga

Vladimir Sorokin

What is life like in the world without paper books? In the world where they survive in museums or are used as barbecue charcoal at snobbish parties...

This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

Tadeusz Borowski

Short stories by a man who had survived a death camp and later committed a suicide by gassing himself to death.

Waking Lions

Ajelet Gundar-Gošen

What is the limit of our lies?

Eight Percent of Nothing

Etgar Keret

New collection of the early short stories by the timeless Keret.

The invisible cities

Italo Calvino

Cities, their descriptions, stories and beautiful illustrations that accompany them. Everlasting classic book gets a new coat.

The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep

David Satter

The Russian's journey to dictatorship and terror of the times of Yeltsin and Putin.

Tales through the telephone - audio

Gianni Rodari

Interesting, funny, hilarious, crazy, made-up and making you to make things up fairy tales in a great interpretation by Richard Stanke, with Boris Lenko’s music.

The Noise of Time

Julian Barnes

A tribute from Barnes to Shostakovich: a composer, conformist and a toy in the hands of the powerful ones.

A Horse Walks into a Bar

David Grossman

The latest book by an Israeli author, master of words and a strong representative of his generation.

Tales through the telephone

Gianni Rodari

Fairy tales about the fantastic, too big, miraculous, unjust and pointless world. Just like children would write them.

Fish have no feet

Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Novel Fiskarnir hafa enga fætur (in English “The fish have no feet”) is about searching, about a nation on the run from having to face itself, and a search for identity. Who are we, truly, and who do we want to be? Perhaps we never tell the whole truth, a

The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie

Agota Kristof

Fascinating story about the essence of being human in the stories of brothers - twins.

Stoner

John Edward Williams

Novel about a farmer boy whose passion for words turns him into a professor of literature.

On a Day Like This

Peter Stamm

A story of a day like this when a teacher Andreas decides to change his life completely.

The book about vermin

Jiří Dvořák

Big book about small vermin.

Nine Stories

Jerome David Salinger

Our old friend comes in new design and new translation

The Violent Bear It Away

Flannery O'Connor

One of the two novels of the very specific Flannery O'Connor.

Summer Light and Then Comes the Night

Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Poetic, exciting, philosophical and full of the special kind of atmosphere you can only find in literature written by the best Icelandic authors.

This should be written in the present tense

Helle Helle

This should be written in the present tense. But it isn’t. Dorte should be at uni in Copenhagen. But she’s not. She should probably put some curtains up in her new place.And maybe stop sleeping with her neighbour’s boyfriend. Perhaps things don’t always w

The Surfacing

Cormac James

A ship trapped in Arctic pack ice with a pregnant stowaway on board is the setting for an essentially psychological novel

Franny and Zooey

Jerome David Salinger

Franny and Zooey is a book by American author J. D. Salinger which comprises his short story "Franny" and novella Zooey.

A Minute

Ihar Babkov

The contemporary reality of Belarus, so much alike to the one of recent Slovakia.

Levels of Life

Julian Barnes

Elegant triptych of history, fiction, and memoir.

Telluria

Vladimir Sorokin

The fabric of the novel, which resembles battle canvases in its form and format, not only has an amazing scale – 50 chapters from the life of people from the mid-21st century, which fit into a jigsaw puzzle thanks to the tellurium and the ability to enter

How I Became the Mayor of a Large City in Iceland and Changed the World

Jón Gnarr

In the epicenter of the world financial crisis, a comedian launched a joke campaign that didn’t seem so funny to the country’s leading politicians . . .

The Giver

Lois Lowry

​The Giver is a 1993 American children's novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian.

Gataca

Franck Thilliez

Continued thriller syndrome E. Main characters- Lieutenant Lucie Hennebelle and the Commissioner Franck Sharko meet again at a new case - they are looking for the key, bringing together several quite unrelated murders.

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Jerome David Salinger

The single volume featuring two novellas by J. D. Salinger, which were previously published in The New Yorker

Seven Good Years

Etgar Keret

For six and a half years Etgar Keret has recorded his personal life, beginning with the birth of his first child and ending with his father's death. But Keret's sad-funny pieces tell much more than the story of his family and his career.

Yellow birds

Kevin Powers

The Yellow Birds is the debut novel from American writer, poet, and Iraq war veteran Kevin Powers. It was one of The New York Times's 100 Most Notable Books of 2012[1] and a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. It was awarded the 2012 The Guardian F

Syndrom E

Franck Thilliez

Story of beleaguered detective Lucie Hennebelle, whose old friend has developed a case of spontaneous blindness after watching an extremely rare—and violent—film from the 1950s.

Man, Who Planted Trees

Jean Giono

Book with a message of hope and meaning of life, vision and human nature.

Foster

Claire Keegan

A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. And then

NW

Zadie Smith

Set in northwest London, Zadie Smith’s brilliant tragicomic novel follows four locals—Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan.

Winter Journal

Paul Auster

In his quietly transfixing new memoir, Winter Journal, Paul Auster meditates on what it means for his mind, body, and creativity to experience the unforgiving passage of time.

The Christmas Mystery

Jostein Gaarder

The book, illustrated by Vlado Kráľ and translated by Milan Žitný will be published in november 2012.

Sisters Brothers

Patrick deWitt

The Sisters Brothers (2011) is a darkly comic, Western-inspired historical novel.

Affliction with the school

Daniel Pennac

An original view of education and learning in an institution called school, with empathy for those, who sit in the classrooms.

Les femmes du braconnier

Claude Pujade-Renaud

Common life of Sylvie Plath and Ted Hughes, couple of poets, which dramatically affected the world of modern literature. Fictionalized probe into the depths of their creation, marriage and his tragic end.

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

Etgar Keret

​Bringing up a child, lying to the boss, placing an order in a fast-food restaurant: in Etgar Keret’s new collection, daily life is complicated, dangerous, and full of yearning. In his most playful and most mature work yet, the living and the dead, silent

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning new chapter in Julian Barnes's oeuvre.

Winter’s Journey

Elfriede Jelinek

Just like a musical stretto, Winter’s Journey summons - with formidable clarity and almost frightening density - all the themes that have occupied Elfriede Jelinek in the years and centuries gone by. In the process of addressing these, she has created one

The Empty Family

Colm Toíbín

Exquisite and almost excruciating collection, set in present-day Ireland.

In Watermelon Sugar

Richard Brautigan

iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar.

To the End of the Land

David Grossman

To the End of the Land (original Hebrew title "Isha Borachat Mi’bsora" - "A woman Escapes from a Message") is a 2008 novel by Israeli writer David Grossman depicting the emotional strains that family members of soldiers experience when their loved ones ar

The Bridges of Hope

Livia Bitton-Jackson

Elli's memoir of her experiences after Auschwitz will captivate readers as they follow her through heartache, frustration, adventure, excitement, love, and ultimately, triumph

Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions

Daniel Wallace

Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions is a 1998 novel by Daniel Wallace. It was adapted into a film, Big Fish, in 2003 by Tim Burton

Sunset Park

Paul Auster

​Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force

Great House

Nicole Krauss

Last novel of the author of The History of Love. Again the good read.

There is Someone in the House

Ľudmila Petruševská

Choice of the short stories of a great contemporary Russian writer.

The Imperfectionists

Tom Rachman

Authentic world of journalism in the big world, where an ordinary eye only hardly can see.

The Appointment

Herta Müllerová

The novel, published in German in 1997, one of several for which the author was known when winning the Nobel in 2009,

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

The Bible of the beat generation, one of the most important books of the last century.

The Encyclopaedia of the Russian Soul

Viktor Jerofejev

Is it a novel, a historical essay, humorist book or - as the title says - an encyclopedia?

On the Road: Original Scrolls

Jack Kerouac

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it

Address Unknown

Katherine Kressmann Taylor

One of the first literary works, which uncovered the true face of Nazi Germany to Americans.

Travels in the Scriptorium

Paul Auster

Vintage of Paul Auster: mysterious texts, fluid identities, a hidden past, and, somewhere, an obscure tormentor.

When I was mortal

Javier Marías

Masterful game of words, passion and tenderness, the harsh reality and dreamlike visions, but always powerful story with a surprising plot and unexpected denouement.

Zazie in the metro

Raymond Queneau

Provincial pre-teenager Zazie stays in Paris with her Uncle Gabriel (a female impersonator) for two days, while her mother spends some time with her lover.

The History of Love

Nicole Krauss

The second novel by the American writer Nicole Krauss, published in 2005. The book was a finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Nine stories

Jerome David Salinger

A collection of nine classic Salinger short stories.

The Sea Is My Brother

Jack Kerouac

The Sea is My Brother is a novel by the American author Jack Kerouac, published in 2011. The novel was written in 1942 and remained unpublished throughout Kerouac's lifetime.

The Gift of Asher Lev

Chaim Potok

The Gift of Asher Lev is a novel by Chaim Potok, published in 1990. It is a sequel to Potok's novel My Name is Asher Lev (1972).

Old Men at Midnight

Chaim Potok

A trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different men—stories that encompass some of the profoundest themes of the twentieth century.

Tracy's Tiger

William Saroyan

This new edition of America's iconic amendment reiterates the charming story of Tracy, who is since one day accompanied by a tiger.

My Name Is Asher Lev

Chaim Potok

A book about a difficult journey of the painter for his artistic dreams and deliverance from the grip of the Orthodox Jewish community.

The Education of Little Trees

Forrest Carter

The book is a retelling of stories from the life of an Indian boy, whose parents died and after that he lives with the grandparents, wise people of the Cherokee tribe.

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