Czechoslovakia


The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Metamorphosis
Too Loud a Solitude
HHhH
The Glass Room
The Lost Wife
Gottland
I Served the King of England
The Trial
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Good Soldier Švejk
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
The Castle
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
War with the Newts
African Banjo Echoes In Appalachia by Cecelia   ConwayEcho of Evil by Manuel KomroffEcho on the Stairs by Martin JensonAn Echo in the Bone by Diana GabaldonMurder Has An Echo by John Notley
King Of The "Echo" People
162 books — 9 voters
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz BorowskiThe Street of Crocodiles by Bruno SchulzThe Joke by Milan KunderaFerdydurke by Witold GombrowiczA Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš
Penguin Writers from the Other Europe
17 books — 11 voters

The Golem by Gustav MeyrinkThe Street of Crocodiles by Bruno SchulzThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav HašekI lived in the 20th century by Jaroslav Bálek
Central European Novels
47 books — 10 voters
A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumSaigon Warrior by Al McDonaldThe Triumph of Improvisation by James Graham WilsonThe Billion Dollar Spy by David E. Hoffman
The Cold War (nonfiction)
381 books — 134 voters

The Wall by Peter SísSomeone Named Eva by Joan M. WolfGolem by David WisniewskiThe Last Bohemians by Kit KimberlyWenceslas by Geraldine McCaughrean
Czech Republic
98 books — 27 voters
Cinderella Goes to Market by Barbara EinhornPost-Soviet Women Encountering Transition by Kathleen KuehnastDaughters of Revolution by Barbara Evans ClementsWomen without Men by Jennifer UtrataEconomies of Violence by Jennifer Suchland
Women in (post)socialist Europe
18 books — 3 voters

Madeleine K. Albright
When, in May, tensions reached a high point, London warned Berlin that if it attacked Czechoslovakia and the French were embroiled as well, "His Majesty's Government could not guarantee that they would not be forced by circumstances to become involved also". Ar the same time, English officials were telling their counterparts in Paris that they were "not disinterested" in Czechoslovakia's fate. I learned in the course of my own career that British diplomats are trained to write in with precision; ...more
Madeleine Albright, Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948

The Mishkan, where the [Tablets] were housed, alludes to a Torah scholar. If a Torah scholar publicizes himself as the day is public, [G-d] will bring a cloud of obscurity over him. However, if a Torah scholar conceals himself like an object concealed at night, [God] will spread his fame as a fire is seen from a distance.
Yitzchak Weiss of Verbau

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