Fiction, Strana 17

It's 1954 and nine-year-old Mira's life is about to change forever. After a typhoid outbreak rages through her town, robbing her of her parents and siblings, the orphaned child...

Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met ... until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard...

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human...

The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. In 1945, in Kostelec,Danny is playing saxophone for...

A mesmerising, epic, utterly involving masterpiece from Haruki MurakamiThe year is 1Q84.This is the real world, there is no doubt about that.But in this world, there are two...

The inspiration for such works as Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Jaroslav Hasek's black satire The Good Soldier Svejk is translated with an introduction by Cecil Parrott in Penguin...

he New York Times No.1 bestselling YA crime thriller that everyone is talking about. Soon to be a major BBC series! A stunning collectors edition of the first book in...

Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she’s hiding a secret that could undo her perfect life forever. Bonnie was a boxer but,...

On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offering an unexpected if temporary reprieve from the grim reality of the German...

The complete collection of Nick Cave lyrics spanning his entire career, from 1978 until 2022, revised and updated by the cult rock star