Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ivan klima

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  • LOVERS FOR A DAY
    IVAN KLÍMA
    This short story collection spanning the celebrated Czech author's career is a "taxonomic survey of Eros . . . [by] a writer at the top of his form" ( The Boston Globe).   In these stories that span an acclaimed career from the 1960s to the present, Ivan Klima offers a vivid gallery of people searching for an escape in love: factory girls and assembly-line workers find respite ...

    $149.00

  • THE ULTIMATE INTIMACY
    IVAN KLÍMA
    "A compelling [novel] . . . charged with quiet yet urgent wisdom" that explores love, adultery, and faith—by the acclaimed Czech author of Love and Garbage ( The Boston Globe).   Pastor Daniel Vedra cares for his family and his congregation, from ministers to prisoners. He is a sought-after commentator in the rapidly changing society of the Czech Republic. But when a beautiful ...

    $179.00

  • MY CRAZY CENTURY
    IVAN KLÍMA
    An intimate, politically vital memoir by the acclaimed Czech author " of enormous power and originality" explores his life under Nazi and Communist regimes ( The New York Times Book Review).   In the 1930s on the outskirts of Prague, Ivan Klíma was unaware of his concealed Jewish heritage until the invading Nazis transported him and his family to the Terezín concentration camp....

    $314.00

  • NO SAINTS OR ANGELS
    IVAN KLÍMA
    A novel of one desperate woman's hopes and desires set in contemporary Prague from "a literary gem who is too little appreciated in the West" ( The Boston Globe).   Divorced, approaching fifty, and mother to a rebellious fifteen-year-old, Kristyna is beginning to feel the strain of her bleak existence—until she finds a new sense of joy when she begins a love affair with a man f...

    $159.00

  • WAITING FOR THE DARK, WAITING FOR THE LIGHT
    IVAN KLÍMA
    A New York Times Notable Book: A Czech filmmaker survives Communism with dreams of artistic freedom in this "darkly powerful novel" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). Pavel Fukova was once a promising, award-winning documentary filmmaker. But when his homeland is overtaken by a Communist regime, he is forced to survive by working as a cameraman for the state-run television s...

    $200.00