In The Eagle’s Talons

Do you know which rabbit can fly? The one that is held in the talons of an eagle. And do you know who rescues socially disadvantaged people from despair, need and drug addiction? Who offers them a roof over their heads and everything they need in life? A modern slaveholder. The novel deals with one…

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You Sing Like You’re Crying

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Although young Andrea, a wife and mother, leads a good life in Prague, she is restless and dissatisfied inside. The demons of the past won’t let go of her. Though she loves her husband and her little son dearly, another love binds her thoughts—to a man twenty years her senior whom she left years ago.…

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House With No Mirrors

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Iva Pekárková knows how to focus on people on the fringes of society. She does it with humor, knowledge of human nature and a vivid, captivating storytelling. It is as if the patients and their carers are stepping out of the pages of the book, with their life stories, their families, their quirks, dreams, their…

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Deathmaiden

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The train rolls on. Inside, alone in the compartment, a young woman is sitting, wounded in body and soul. She is looking at the landscape outside the window, thinking about her family, reminiscing about cheerful moments spent with her sister, who committed suicide. Why? No one knows. Marie, the protagonist of the novel, blames herself…

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Splinters

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A young woman from a small town in the Sudetenland is paraplegic after a car accident. Although she is bound to a wheelchair and her marriage collapses, she decides to enjoy her life to the fullest. Despite her disability she wins the right to educate her son as a single mother. She also succeeds in…

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Dust Collectors

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Twenty-eight-year-old Anna answers the phone on an information line and lives alone in an apartment full of knickknacks gathering dust. Apart from her sister, Dana, she barely sees anyone else, occupying her time with a stream of sardonic internal dialogue. Anna is a wounded soul, marked by the trauma of childhod violence. Her father died a sudden death.…

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Elephants at Dusk

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He wants a better life in Europe; she just wants someone to love her. Their relationship, problematic from the start, gradually crumbles, leaving them both desperate and hopeless. It might seem that Pekárková’s novel is just next in the line of unhappy love stories involving white women and African men; but in fact, it delves…

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Roast Zebra

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In this novel Iva Pekárková writes about a modern-day phenomenon no-one has written about yet, that is, black-and-white relationships within the Czech Republic. She knows what’s going on in Prague streets and nightclubs as well as in sleepy Czech towns whose inhabitants may never have seen a “live” black man. She sets the “big world…

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The She-Leopard

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The heroine of this novel is a Czech woman in her forties, suffering a deep personal crisis. Instead of staying in her homeland and succumbing to her depression, she decides to try and start again. When the reader meets her, she lives in London where she has chosen the best therapy for her wounded soul:…

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Gimme the Money

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First published in 1996 in Czech, in 2000 in German and in English translation. 2017 the novel is being revived. It has been republished in the Czech Republic and in Germany. Hail Gin’s taxi and take a seat for the ride of your life! Jindřiška/Gin is a New York cabbie, a struggling Czech immigrant alternately…

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