Ivan Klima, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (164p) ISBN 978-0-06-015866-8
This elegiac and lyrical coming-of-age quartet of stories on love, obsession and disenchantment follows one protagonist from a WW II boyhood in a Czech ghetto to life as a student and aspiring writer under the Communist regime. Klima (A Ship Named...
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Ivan Klima, Author Grove/Atlantic $21 (234p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1574-4
This dark and powerful novel by Czech writer and former dissident Klima (Love and Garbage) follows the life of Pavel Fukova, a cynical cameraman for state-controlled TV in Czechoslovakia circa 1989. Pavel and his cineast buddy, Peter, attempted to...
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Ivan Klima, Author, a. g. brain, Translator, A. G. Brain, Translator Grove/Atlantic $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1625-3
Daniel Vedra is a man of God. How can he be an adulterer? That's the question that obsesses Daniel and his creator, Czech novelist Klima (Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light), in this brooding novel. Known for fiction that captures the tenor
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Ivan Klima, Author, Gerry Turner, Translator Thames & Hudson $12.95 (88p) ISBN 978-0-500-28158-1
In 19 short, interlinked meditations, Klima, the eminent Czech novelist, playwright and essayist, takes a humanist's stroll through our inhumane century and ponders our millennial prospects. A survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, Klima fathoms the
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Ivan Klima, Author, Paul Wilson, Translator Scribner Book Company $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19727-2
The title of this collection of short stories, set in the mid-1980s in the author's native Czechoslovakia, is taken from an old Czech proverb: For him with nine trades the 10th is poverty. Klima, a well-known dissident who was forced to take a...
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Ivan Klima, Author, Paul Wilson, Translator Granta (NY) $12.95 (188p) ISBN 978-0-9645611-2-0
This collection of critical pieces by the acclaimed Czech author of Waiting for the Darkness, Waiting for the Light offers a fine introduction to Klima's life, intellectual development and literary and cultural preoccupations. It includes essays on...
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Ivan Klima, Author, Ewald Osers, Translator, Oscar Osers, Translator Vintage Books USA $15 (240p) ISBN 978-0-679-73755-1
Klima wrote this sensuously romantic novel on the timeless theme of the clandestine love affair in response to the misogyny and cynicism he perceived in his countryman Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. (Apr.)
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Ivan Klima, Author, A. G. Brain, Translator Vintage Books USA $21 (556p) ISBN 978-0-679-73756-8
This semi-autobiographical Czech novel, first published underground in 1978, depicts the dilemmas of intellectual life under communist rule in Eastern Europe. (May)
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Ivan Klima, Author, A. G. Brain, Translator Alfred A. Knopf $25 (549p) ISBN 978-0-394-58977-0
First published underground in Czechoslovakia in 1978, this semi-autobiographical novel was reworked by Klima ( Love and Garbage ) in 1986 to include significant incidents from his own past. These key additions--brutally honest, emotional,...
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Ivan Klima, Author, Gerald Turner, Translator , trans. from the Czech by Gerald Turner. Grove $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1695-6
Klíma, internationally acclaimed author of a substantial body of work (Love and Garbage; Lovers for a Day; etc.), deconstructs a contemporary Czech family in his latest effort. Kristýna, a divorced mother in her 40s, works as a dentist
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Ivan Klima, Author, Gerald Turner, Translator Atlantic Monthly Press $24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1651-2
Sophisticated readers may expect to admire anything new from the justly revered Czech novelist (Waiting for the Light, Waiting for the Dark). Many of them will be disappointed with these 12 short stories. Klima's tales are sorted into three unequal...
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Ivan Klíma, trans. from the Czech by Craig Cravens. Grove, $30 (576p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2170-7
Acclaimed dissident Czech playwright and novelist Klíma (Love and Garbage) surveys several varieties of political insanity in this absorbing memoir. His life began in deranged horror as his Jewish family barely survived internment in the “model”...
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Ivan Klima, Author, Ivan Klmma, Author, Norma Comrada, Translator Catbird Press $23 (266p) ISBN 978-0-945774-53-2
Internationally acclaimed Czech writer Karel Capek (1890-1938) may have played second fiddle to his Prague colleague and contemporary Franz Kafka, but he gets treated to a fond biography with Ivan Klima's (No Saints or Angels) Karel Capek: Life...
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