To be published: Q2 2025
You won’t get away. In the Christmas time, two boys hanging out in Prague’s Anděl district have their lives changed when a quick burglary turns into a terrifying encounter with an organised drug trafficking group. At the same time, a new client comes to private detective Kob – she wants to track down her son at any cost.
Stalin, Hitler a příběh jedné vražedné aliance 1939–1941
To be published: Q1 2024
The Pact. Stalin, Hitler and the Story of a Murderous Alliance 1939–1941. Hitler’s alliance with Stalin, known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, was not only a temporary armstice between the two totalitarian world powers but practically enabled the Nazi Germany to start the World War II by attacking Poland and simultaneously enabled the Stalinist Soviet Union to occupy the Baltic states and after the war with Finland a part of its territory, too. Thus during the first twenty-two months of the World War II the collaboration of the two dictators changed the political situation on the whole continent fundamentally.
aneb židovská dobrodružství křesťanského chlapce, když skončilo šoa
To be published: Q4 2024
Gojele. The Jewish adventures of a Christian boy after the end of Shoah. Gojele is a semi-autobiographical novel that tells a story of a twelve-year-old German boy. After World War II, owing to administrative oversight, the boy found himself with his mother in northern Moravia. It was a place in the former Sudetenland (Weidenitz – Vidnava) near the Polish border, where Jews returning from concentration camps were gathered before they were supposed to move to Palestine. Meanwhile, the intended destination for the boy and his mother was actually one of the gathering places for Sudeten Germans before their expulsion from Czechoslovakia (Weidenau – Vidnice).
To be published: Q2 2025
Breathlessness. How to be a good mother when community is disappearing from society? Lucie Koudelková Jesenská writes about a sensitive topic resonating in the contemporary public space in the form of a remembering the time when women walked around the world with their breasts exposed and drank water from springs, a time of ancient cetaceans and pterodactyls, a time when a mother of a child was not only the real mother, but the entire village community. Time before the plastic jungle and playgrounds.
To be published: Q2 2025
The Steppe. In the hot summer of 2010, when the European part of Russia was engulfed by fires, a 20-year-old girl arrives from Siberia to meet her father, whom she hasn’t seen for ten years. Together they set off on a long journey in his truck and their destination is the untamed steppe in the south of the country. The father, who considers this inhospitable expanse his home and only possession, would like to share it with his grown daughter. However, the taiga-born girl is rather frightened by the open landscape and finds it alien.
To be published: Q2 2025
Grimbosq. In June 1721, the French architect Étienne Grimbosq arrives in Petersburg with his wife and daughter. He was hired by Peter the Great to build a palace for his Chamberlain Romashkin. The new city, built on marshes without solid foundations, is the work of Peter the Great, built more or less on command. The Tsar left patriarchal Moscow and moved his court far north to St Petersburg, forcing everyone to build a house there according to the plans laid down by the state administration and to attend various eccentric festivals under threat of fines, reminiscent without exaggeration of Peter Breughel’s Kermeses and Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights.
To be published: Q3 2025
Mother Odessa. In addition to its literary qualities, the novel Mama Odessa presents a view of the turbulent fate of Jews in the 20th century. It tells the story of a Russian-Jewish family from Odessa and artfully connects different time periods: Odessa during World War II, including the massacre of Odessa’s Jews in 1941, the late Stalinist period when the KGB persecuted the narrator’s father, emigration, and the present.
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