Unable to gain admittance to high school and hampered by conflicting guidance from her counselors, fifteen-year-old Lizinka Tachezy follows the offhanded advice of a friend: attend hangman's school and learn the art and science of killing...
This picaresque story, set in modern-day Prague, is an "invariably lively, often funny" (Washington Post) portrait of a nation in transition, a stylish combination of political allegory and whodunit. Translated by Neil Bermel. Harvest in Translation ...
In the downward spiral of the Third Reich's final days, a sadistic serial killer is stalking the streets of Prague. The unlikely pair of Jan Morava, a rookie Czech police detective, and Erwin Buback, a Gestapo agent questioning his own loyalty to the...