Pálava Publishing

In telling the stories of several generations of one family, the author sketches the development of Czech society in the recent past. His version of history is replete with humour and hyperbole, as we
Helena Součková, an eight-year-old schoolgirl in a small provincial town, deals not only with the uniquely dismal side of life in communist Czechoslovakia, but also with more than a few universal issu
Over a generous time span, this book follows the varied lives of several high-school classmates, from their teenage growing pains to their early forties. Connoisseurs of the work of the current most p
Like B. Proudew, this work is an idiosyncratic autobiography woven into a collective memory of 1980s ?timelessness?, to quote V?clav Havel. In spite of the vetting obstacles placed in her way by the a