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Another Kundera that is great: "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting"
The Widow Killer by Pavel Kohout is a good thriller from an important (though not exactly prolific) Czech writer. Kohout was one of the founding members of Charta 77 with Vaclav Havel. Another book by Kohout which I know is available in English translation is I am Snowing
Michal Ajvaz's The Other City was really something special, a book that didn't just inspire my imagination, but overwhelmed it. I'll looking forward to picking up the translation of his more recent book, The Golden Age.
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron CurtainI got this for a friend for Christmas. His children liked it too.
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Books mentioned in this topic
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (other topics)The Other City (other topics)
The Golden Age (other topics)
The Visible World (other topics)
I Am Snowing: The Confessions Of A Woman of Prague (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Michal Ajvaz (other topics)Václav Havel (other topics)
Pavel Kohout (other topics)
Too Loud a Solitude, Bohumil Hrabal
The Miracle Game and Dvorak in Love A Light-Hearted Dream, Josef Skvorecky
R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots, Karel Capek
Lovely Green Eyes A Novel, Arnost Lustig
The Basic Kafka, Franz Kafka (for a wide variety of Kafkaesque writing)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
There are such rich Czech writers. Can anyone recommend others?