Alex Zucker Phones & Addresses
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Everett, MA
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Somerville, MA
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Brighton, MA
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Amherst, MA
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Phoenix, AZ
Publications
Isbn (Books And Publications)
More Than One Life
View pageAlex Zucker
0810117053
Amazon
Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life
View pageWritten between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia’s postwar Communist regime, Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life flew in the face of the reigning aesthetic of socialist realism, an anti-heroic novel informed by the literary theory of Viktor Shklovsky and con...
Josef Jedlicka
Hardcover
150
Karolinum Press, Charles University
802463127X
9788024631271
5
The Attempt
View pageThe Attempt is historical fiction at its best. Through its narrator’s archival approach to his material, the book explores the intimate lives of a pair of fervent idealists, as well as a robber baron and his family. The result is a vivid, poignant narrative about political upheaval, both in the past...
Magdaléna Platzová
Paperback
224
Bellevue Literary Press
1942658087
9781942658085
3
City Sister Silver (paperback)
View pageWinner of the Egon Hostovský Prize as the best Czech book of the year, this epic novel powerfully captures the sense of dislocation that followed the Czechs’ newfound freedom in 1989.More than just the story of its young protagonistwho is part businessman, part gang member, part drifterit is a novel...
Jáchym Topol
Paperback
512
Catbird Press
0945774451
9780945774457
2
Love Letter in Cuneiform (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
View pageSet in Czechoslovakia between the 1940s and the 1990s, Tomáš Zmeškal’s stimulating novel focuses on one family’s tragic story of love and the unspoken. Josef meets his wife, Kveta, before the Second World War at a public lecture on Hittite culture. Kveta chooses to marry Josef over their mutual frie...
Tomáš Zmeškal
Paperback
328
Yale University Press
0300186975
9780300186970
1
More Than One Life
View pageMore Than One Life is a chronicle of several generations of an upper-middle-class Czech family, told from the point of view of a woman who reached adulthood in the 1930s. Beginning in the years preceding World War II, the story concentrates on the narrator's tragically mismatched parents, and the ch...
Miloslava Holubova
Hardcover
104
Northwestern University Press
0810117053
9780810117051
10
Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention
View pageIn the two and a half decades since the end of the Cold War, policy makers have become acutely aware of the extent to which the world today faces mass atrocities. In an effort to prevent the death, destruction, and global chaos wrought by these crimes, the agendas for both national and international...
Hardcover
546
Cambridge University Press
1107094968
9781107094963
9
Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street
View pageThis rediscovered masterpiece captures a chilling moment in the stifling early days of Communist Czechoslovakia. 1950s Prague is a city of numerous daily terrors, of political tyranny, corruption and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one’s neighbor is spying for the government, or wha...
Heda Margolius Kovály
Hardcover
256
Soho Crime
1616954965
9781616954963
7
The Devil's Workshop
View page'The devil had his workshop in Belarus. That's where the deepest graves are. But no one knows about it.'A young man grows up in a town with a sinister history. The concentration camp may have been liberated years ago, but its walls still cast their long shadows and some of the inhabitants are quite ...
Jachym Topol
Paperback
160
Portobello Books
1846274176
9781846274176
6