Bodies
Klára Vlasáková's novel gives voice to older women finding themselves on the margins of Czech society, examining contemporary issues with a strong and critical perspective.
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Memory Burn
Marek Torčík's debut novel explores queer identity and the challenges of growing up in a dysfunctional family within a small, forgotten Moravian town in the Czech Republic.
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Goodbye to Budapest: A Novel of the Hungarian Uprising
Margarita Morris crafts a suspenseful narrative about a young woman in 1950s Budapest who must fight for freedom and survival when her father is arrested by the Secret Police and the Hungarian Uprising ignites.
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The Dispossessed: A Novel
Szilárd Borbély offers a haunting portrayal of a partially Jewish family struggling with poverty and ostracism in a Hungarian village during the late 1960s and early 1970s, as seen through the eyes of a young boy.
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The Empusium
Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk invites listeners to a sanatorium in a remote Polish mountain village in 1913, where a new arrival discovers the unsettling truths and hidden horrors beneath its seemingly idyllic surface.
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