Written and published in 1856, before Jules Verne published any of his novels. A young explorer sets off to map the stars in a balloon...
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The moving yet humorous story of a girl struggling to care for herself and others in post-communist Slovakia...
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Autofikční román z temného období po sovětské invazi v roce 1968 nastoluje otázky o individuální a společenské paměti, traumatu a vině. Autor a jeho žena Zora Jesenská byli významnými osobnostmi slovenského kulturního života a jako...
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An engrossing novel about the lives in a small Slovak town during the tumultuous twentieth century...
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The book speaks to the poet's own (young) generation about how technology affords new ways of expressing love, while nostalgically evoking times before Facebook and selfies. However, nature-versus-technology is not the primary theme here...
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An award-winning Slovak novella and three additional short stories. This collection, by an author described as "the Slovak Kafka," shares a unique dark humor, along with a commitment to satire and truth....
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Though Into the Spotlight is drawn from the work of writers from one of Europe's smallest countries, this source reveals itself to be something like a magic lamp out of which comes a multitude of subjects, themes, and styles well out ...
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The Dedalus Book of Slovak Literature offers a wide-ranging selection of fiction from the end of the nineteenth century until the present day, including work by Slovak's classic and most important contemporary authors...
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This gem of Slovak naturalism was written in 1940. The story takes the reader to a mountain village. The protagonist narrates the vicissitudes, suffering, and success he experiences as he pursues a love affair, resulting in the triumph of pure love...
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What is certain is the civil war between the Slovaks and the Junjans is becoming fiercer. Reports from the battlefield talk of dozens of dead combatants daily, on both sides...
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Pišťanek´s reputation is assured by the originality, craftsmanship and inventiveness of <i>Rivers of Babylon</i> and by its hero, the most mesmerizing character of Slovak literature, Rácz, an idiot of genius, a psychopathic gangster...
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Blending the naturalistic and the fabulistic, these elusive, delicate stories fold fable and fairy tale into the everyday, domestic settings of kitchen, garden, car. Women love, and lose...
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Five short stories forming a flowing, continuous narrative with the individual stories linked by place and tone in a choir of distinct voices.
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Thanks to Janko Kráľ, as John Minahane has written, the Váh is Slovakia’s most mystical river...
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Alfonz Trnovsky, a genial and respected general practitioner in Breany, a small (fictitious) town in western Slovakia, spent his whole life pretending to be radiantly happy and contented, while the reality was quite different...
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Fleeting Snow is a novella full of gentle reminiscences about a life shared, as the narrator looks back on a long marriage and muses on issues ranging from human nature and the soul, to given names and the phonetics of ...
It is 1984 and a small town somewhere in the east of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic is in the firm grip of totalitarianism. Karolina, a teenage runaway who never knew her father and who grew up in an untraditional family full of strange women...
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Najvýznamnejšie básnické dielo slovenskej literatúry s protivojnovou tematikou je stále aktuálne ostrým odsúdením morálneho a spoločenského úpadku a ponížením ľudskosti, ktoré vojnový konflikt prináša. Básnik v 32 sonetoch okrem protestu proti...
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Andric and his girlfriend Laura have been seeing each other for a long time now but it isn't clear what each sees in the other. Self-absorbed, delusional or just a regular couple? ...
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Blanka takes a summer job at a centre for people with physical disabilities in the French city of Marseille, where her encounter with their severe conditions ends badly. A deeply unsettling, visceral tale of a young woman unravelling, ...
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