Four short stories explore the emotional development of a young man in postwar Czechoslovakia

My First Loves (English and Czech Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Ivan Klíma

Short Stories & Anthologies

Harper&Row

The narrator 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, on Kafka, on life, on art and, obsessively, on his passionate and adulterous love affair with the sculptress Daria.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Love and Garbage

Contemporary

VINTAGE (RAND)

Judge On Trial

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Vintage Books

A series of four narratives told by the same character which develop the themes of sexual awakening and political upheaval in post-war Czechoslovakia. Klima, whose work was banned in Czechoslovakia, was editor of the Czech Writers Union during the Prague Spring before leaving for the USA in 1969.

My First Loves (Penguin International Writers)

Penguin??Books

An issue of Granta devoted to all things Soviet, including fiction, non-fiction, photographs, interviews and an exclusive interview with Mikhail Gorbachev by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Granta 30, Winter 1990: New Europe

GRAHAM SWIFT

Joseph Brodsky

Czesław Miłosz

Classics

Granta USA

Describes life before, during and after Czechoslovakia's velvet revolution in 1989. Pavel is a middle-aged filmmaker, a not-quite dissident working uneasily within the boundaries set by the regime. He is paralyzed rather than liberated by the certain knowledge that change is coming.

Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light

Granta/Penguin

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Granta 38, Winter 1991: We're So Happy!

Louise Erdrich

Tracy Kidder

JEREMY RIFKIN

Granta Books

My first loves

"The voice [in these stories] is clear and intelligent and brave. Mr. Klíma has climbed the mast." ―New York Times Through four sensuous tales, a young man traces his harsh coming of age in Czechoslovakia, where faith in love, country and human kindness must hold out against increasing political disillusionment. His first affections move from a young kitchen girl in the Jewish ghetto who fills his glass tall with scarce milk to a restless married woman, an undercover spy, and a frail woman who can't escape her past suffering. It is Ivan Klíma's keen, ironic eye and naive, lyrical timbre that suffuses these stories with their richness of detail. Klíma's work was banned in his native Czechoslovakia, where he was published in samizdat.

My First Loves

W.W.Norton&Company

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.

Dramas & Plays

Vintage

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.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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My First Loves (English and Czech Edition)

Love and Garbage

Judge On Trial

My First Loves (Penguin International Writers)

Granta 30, Winter 1990: New Europe

Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light

Granta 38, Winter 1991: We're So Happy!

My First Loves

Love and Garbage

Judge On Trial