wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Love And Garbage
ISBN: 9780099429586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The narrator of this novel has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress - an essay on Kafka - and exchanged his writer's pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. As he works, he meditates on Czechoslovakia, Kafka, life, art and his passionate and adulterous affair with Daria.
The narrator of this novel has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress - an essay on Kafka - and exchanged his writer's pen for the orange vest of ...
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51,58 zł |
Moje zlatá řemesla
ISBN: 9788071080008 / Czeski / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. V knize povídek Moje zlatá řemesla vypráví Ivan Klíma příběhy své i příběhy lidí, které potkává. Jeho zlatá řemesla jsou buď klukovské sny stát se malířem (Malířská povídka) nebo strojvůdcem (Řidičská povídka), či skutečná zaměstnání, ke kterým je autor přiveden nucenou ztrátou svého řemesla spisovatelského (Archeologická, Posílkářská a Zeměměřičská povídka). V Pašerácké povídce se pašují knihy a myšlenky. Všechno, co Klíma vypráví, ho inspiruje ke vzpomínkám na příběhy minulé, k úvahám o smyslu věcí i dějů a...
V knize povídek Moje zlatá řemesla vypráví Ivan Klíma příběhy své i příběhy lidí, které potkává. Jeho zlatá řemesla jsou buď kluko...
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34,27 zł |
Moje šílené století (souborné vydání)
ISBN: 9788020032096 / Czeski / 2021 / 764 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. V roce devadesátých narozenin jednoho z nejznámějších českých spisovatelů 20. století Ivana Klímy vycházejí souborně v jednom svazku jeho paměti Moje šílené století. Autor popisuje svůj život ve dvacátém století, v němž zakusil dvě zhoubné diktatury, od dětství za protektorátu až do přelomového roku 1989. Nazval ho „šíleným stoletím“ – jako úsek dějin, kterému nejsme s to porozumět, stejně jako nerozumíme šílenému člověku. Klíma nezůstal jen u ponoru do své osobní minulosti, ale vzpomínky prokládá řadou esejů, v nichž...
V roce devadesátých narozenin jednoho z nejznámějších českých spisovatelů 20. století Ivana Klímy vycházejí souborně v jednom svazku jeh...
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132,54 zł |
My Golden Trades
ISBN: 9781862071032 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. One of the last artistic expressions of life under communism, this novel captures the atmosphere in Prague between 1983 and 1987, where a dance could be broken up by the secret police, a traffic offence could lead to surveillance and where contraband books were the currency of the underworld.
One of the last artistic expressions of life under communism, this novel captures the atmosphere in Prague between 1983 and 1987, where a dance could ...
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55,18 zł |
No Saints or Angels
ISBN: 9780802139238 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Ivan Klima has been acclaimed by The Boston Globe as "a literary gem who is too little appreciated in the West" and a "Czech master at the top of his game." In No Saints or Angels, a Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Klima takes us into the heart of contemporary Prague, where the Communist People's Militia of the Stalinist era marches headlong into the drug culture of the present. Kristyna is in her forties, the divorced mother of a rebellious fifteen-year-old daughter, Jana. She is beginning to love a man fifteen years her junior, but her joy is clouded by worry -- Jana has been cutting...
Ivan Klima has been acclaimed by The Boston Globe as "a literary gem who is too little appreciated in the West" and a "Czech master at the top of his ...
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73,90 zł |
Ultimate Intimacy
ISBN: 9780802136015 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 387 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When a beautiful married woman walks into Pastor Daniel Vedra's life and conjures up memories of his first wife, Jitka, he struggles with the chaos the affair creates for his wife, his children, his vocation, and his future.
When a beautiful married woman walks into Pastor Daniel Vedra's life and conjures up memories of his first wife, Jitka, he struggles with the chaos th...
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91,29 zł |
Judge on Trial
ISBN: 9780679737568 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 556 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Part thriller, part domestic tragedy, at once political and intensely personal, Ivan Kilma's epicly scaled new novel is an inquest into the compromises that turned even the best citizens of Czechoslovakia into accomplices of its late totalitarian regime. "Enormously powerful."--New York Times Book Review.
Part thriller, part domestic tragedy, at once political and intensely personal, Ivan Kilma's epicly scaled new novel is an inquest into the compromise...
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91,29 zł |
Prague Tales
ISBN: 9789639116238 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Collection of Jan Neruda's intimate, wry, bitter-sweet stories of life among the inhabitants of Mala Strana, the Little Quarter of nineteenth century Prague. These finely tuned and varied vignettes established Neruda as the quintessential Czech nineteenth century realist, the Charles Dickens of a Prague becoming ever more aware of itself as a Czech, rather than an Austrian city. Prague Tales is a classic story whose influence has been acknowledged by generations of Czech writers, including Ivan Klima, who has contributed an introduction to this new translation.
Collection of Jan Neruda's intimate, wry, bitter-sweet stories of life among the inhabitants of Mala Strana, the Little Quarter of nineteenth century ...
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78,03 zł |
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light
ISBN: 9780802142436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A New York Times Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light is the story of Pavel, once a promising, award-winning documentary filmmaker, forced to survive under communism by working as a cameraman for the state-run television station. Now middle-aged, he dreams of one day making a film a searing portrait of his times that the authorities would never allow. When the communist regime collapses, Pavel is unprepared for the new world of supposedly unlimited freedom, unable to make the film he has always wanted to make. Waiting for the...
A New York Times Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light is the story of Pavel, once a...
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78,25 zł |
Love and Garbage
ISBN: 9780679737551 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) From an internationally acclaimed Czech writer comes a shrewd, humane, and poignant novel, set in Prague before the Velvet Revolution, whose perceptions about love, conscience, and betrayal cut to the bone of life in both totalitarian and democratic societies. A chilling story from the underground.--The New York Times.
From an internationally acclaimed Czech writer comes a shrewd, humane, and poignant novel, set in Prague before the Velvet Revolution, whose perceptio...
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78,25 zł |
My Merry Mornings
ISBN: 9780930523053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Seven stories offer a satiric look at life in modern Czechoslovakia, including the black market, love, thievery, religion, and the need for secrecy.
Seven stories offer a satiric look at life in modern Czechoslovakia, including the black market, love, thievery, religion, and the need for secrecy.
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82,52 zł |
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
ISBN: 9780141182087 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A visionary work of science fiction that introduced the word "robot" Written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922--garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, Capek's Robots are an android product--they remember everything but think of nothing new. But the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning, and the humans they serve stop reproducing. When the Robots revolt, killing all but one of their masters, they must strain to learn the secret of...
A visionary work of science fiction that introduced the word "robot" Written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in N...
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60,86 zł |