Vladimir Paral, Author, Craig Cravens, Translator , trans. from the Czech by Craig Cravens. Catbird $27 (409p) ISBN 978-0-945774-52-5
Written 30 years ago, this Rabelaisian and restless novel from Czech mountebank Páral, a contemporary of Milan Kundera, describes the lives of the inhabitants of a chemical factory's employee-housing complex. Story lines often involve...
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Vladimir Paral, Author, William Harkins, Translator Catbird Press $22.95 (391p) ISBN 978-0-945774-15-0
In this 1971 satire, the Czech author of Catapult combines shrewd comedy with a highly critical picture of an inefficient, corrupt Communist bureaucracy. Its spirited, much-put-upon heroine is the beautiful Sonya, who is almost magically transformed
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Vladimir Paral, Author, William Harkins, Designed by Catbird Press $15.95 (226p) ISBN 978-0-945774-04-4
This 1967 novel, written at the height of the heady political and literary fermentation known as the Prague Spring, is here published in English for the first time. It is black humor at its best, poking fun at the dismal brand of Czech socialism and
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