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

Literature & Fiction

Klíma, Ivan

Contemporary

VINTAGE (RAND)

Judge On Trial

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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.

Their affair was madness, but once it had begun there was no going back. A story about love with disconcerting Flaubertian wisdom according to the Times Literary Supplement.

A Summer Affair (Penguin International Writers S.)

Penguin

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Penguin Group

This is a collection of essays, charting five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia. Ivan Klima was a witness to the horrors of Nazi occupation, to the Stalinist regimes of the 1950s, the hopes of the Prague Spring in 1968, the resistance of Charter 77 and the triumph of the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Now, as his country faces further division in the 1990s, Klima invokes the spirit of Prague and the people that have shaped and sustained him throughout his writing career.

Spirit of Prague

Penguin Putnam~trade

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 Lig

Granta Books

Text: English (translation) 
Original Language: Czech

My golden trades

My Golden Trades

Penguin Uk

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book Pavel is a middle-aged man, a once-promising, award-winning documentary filmmaker, who is forced to survive by working as a cameraman for the state-run television station under Czechoslovakia's repressive regime. He dreams of one day making a filmâ€”a searing portrait of his timesâ€”that the authorities would never allow. When the communist regime collapses, Pavel finds himself unprepared for the new world of supposedly unlimited freedom, and unable to make the film he has always wanted to make. His dilemmaâ€”that of a man choosing between the ideals and temptations of freedomâ€”informs every sentence of this important novel.

Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light: A Novel

Genre Fiction

Picador

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Love and Garbage

Judge On Trial

Judge On Trial

A Summer Affair (Penguin International Writers S.)

Love and Garbage

Spirit of Prague

Waiting for the Dark Waiting for the Lig

My golden trades

My Golden Trades

Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light: A Novel