Books

Explore the rich tapestry of Czech food with award-winning chef Denise Mazal Resnerova's enchanting cookbook, The Aroma of Czech Cuisine.

Karel Capek is one of the greatest Czechoslovakian authors of the century.

In Mendelssohn Is on the Roof, Jiří Weil portrays the Nazi occupation of Prague with dark irony, weaving a tale where a statue of the Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn becomes the focal point of absurd cruelty and bureaucratic terror.

How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia.

In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates the city of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals, and impossible statues, all lurking on the peripheries of a town so familiar to tourists.

The authors represent a very broad spectrum of democratic opinion, including liberal, conservative and socialist.

A short novel by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, called "our very best writer today" by Milan Kundera.

The story of The Trial's publication is almost as fascinating as the novel itself.

This magnificent novel, now available in a beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition, is a story of passion and politics, infidelity and ideas, and encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy

The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island in the Atlantic.

The Engineer of Human Souls is a labyrinthine comic novel that investigates the journey and plight of novelist Danny Smiricky, a Czech immigrant to Canada.

The Good Soldier Švejk combines dazzling wordplay and piercing satire to create a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war.