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Der kleine Maulwurf lebt zusammen mit seinen Freunden im Wald. Er ist lieb, löst Probleme für seine Freunde und entdeckt neugierig die Welt. Dabei stellt sich immer wieder heraus, dass der kleine Maulwurf oft viel weniger weiß, als seine kleinen und großen Zuschauer. Kein Wunder, schließlich ist er eigentlich auch unter der Erde zu Hause. In Sachen Warmherzigkeit und Menschlichkeit ist der kleine Maulwurf dafür aber allen anderen um Längen vor...

Der kleine Maulwurf lebt zusammen mit seinen Freunden im Wald. Er ist fröhlich, hat einen von Grund auf guten Charakter und löst Probleme für seine Freunde immer mit Warmherzigkeit und Humor. Der kleine Maulwurf ist eigentlich unter der Erde zu Hause. Daher ist es für ihn immer aufregend und spannend, aus seinem Maulwurfs-hügel heraus zu klettern, um neugierig und aufmerksam die Welt zu entdecken.Folgen:32 Der Maulwurf und kleine Entchen33 Der...

Funny, shocking and absurd, tales of a dissident's life in Prague before the fall of communism, by one of the greatest Czech writers. Engagingly down-to-earth stories still relevant today."These are the best Czech short stories since the days of Karel Capek, " says The Financial Times

Adam, a judge in Communist Czechoslovakia, falls under government suspicion after travelling abroad and being seen with the wrong people. In order to prove his political credentials, he is asked to deliver a verdict of guilty on a suspected murderer.

From an internationally acclaimed Czech writer comes a shrewd, humane, and poignant novel, set in Prague before the Velvet Revolution, whose perceptions about love, conscience, and betrayal cut to the bone of life in both totalitarian and democratic societies. "A chilling story from the underground."--The New York Times.

One of the last artistic expressions of life under communism, this novel captures the atmosphere in Prague between 1983 and 1987, where a dance could be broken up by the secret police, a traffic offense could lead to surveillance, and where contraband books were the currency of the underworld.

In his intimate autobiography, spanning six decades that included war, totalitarianism, censorship, and the fight for democracy, acclaimed Czech writer Ivan Klima reflects back on his remarkable life and this critical period of twentieth-century history. Klima's story begins in the 1930s on the outskirts of Prague where he grew up unaware of his concealed Jewish heritage. It came as a surprise when his family was transported to the Terezin con...

When he first visited the Czech Republic in the 1990s, Matthew Monteith was taken with the details of ordinary life in this country in transition. Captivated by the ineffable-a mood, a sense of place-he made repeated visits and in 2001-3 traveled throughout the country photographing with the hope of creating a contemporary allegory that reflected ideals he had found in old postcards and Czech photography from the 1920s and '30s. With their res...

Ivan Klíma beleuchtet die absurden Anstrengungen, die Menschen aus Sehnsucht nach Liebe und Verliebtsein unternehmen, von verschiedenen Seiten. In diesen acht Erzählungen, die Klíma berühmt gemacht haben, sind die Schrecknisse und die Tröstungen der Liebe fast immer zugleich spürbar und sichtbar. Ein verständnisvoller Blick auf das »wunderbarste und seltsamste aller Gefühle«.

Da ist der idealistische Landvermesser und Ingenieur Martin Petr, der aus Prag in die ferne Ostslowakei geht, um Bauern und Dörfer vor Überschwemmungen zu retten. Da ist Pavel, ein junger Mann, der den Älteren gern zuhört und schnell lernt, oder der Partisan Smoljak, der nach dem Verräter sucht, der seine ganze Familie den Nazis ausgeliefert hat (das war der sehr fromme Pfarrer), der pazifistische Holzfäller, der aus Kanada zurückgekommen ist ...

No Saints or Angels is a portrayal of life and love in Prague, where Kristyna lives with her unruly daughter and is striving to come to terms with the unease created by her family history.

A collection of essays charting five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia, including the Nazi occupation, the Stalinist regimes of the 1950s, the celebrations of the Prague Spring, the 1968 Soviet invasion, Charter 77, and the Velvet Revolution of 1989.

Ivan Klima, 'a writer of enormous power and originality' (The New York Times Book Review), has penned an intimate autobiography that explores his life under Nazi and Communist regimes.

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A New York Times Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light is the story of Pavel, once a promising, award-winning documentary filmmaker, forced to survive under communism by working as a cameraman for the state-run television station. Now middle-aged, he dreams of one day making a film -- a searing portrait of his times that the authorities would never allow. When the communist regi...

Featuring essays by Myla Goldberg, Helen Epstein, Jan Morris, and Francine Prose, "Travelers' Tales Prague" collects over 20 stories from the city that inspired compositions from Mozart and novels from Kafka. The pieces in this book are both a charming enticement for prospective travelers and a welcome companion for those already there.

Set in the present-day Czech Republic, this novel traces a year in the life of a Protestant pastor, Daniel Vedra. Ostensibly a happily married father of three, he is gradually beset by spiritual doubt and temptations, both physical and material.

Ivan Klima has been called a "Czech genius" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. In these stories spanning his long career from the 1960s to the present, he gives us a gallery of people searching, in love, for escape: factory girls on their day off and assembly-line workers lost in Walter-Mittyesque fantasies, a young woman on a honeymoon with the man she did not marry, a divorce-court judge whose mistress cannot understand his affection for ...

Ivan Klima has been acclaimed by The Boston Globe as "a literary gem who is too little appreciated in the West" and a "Czech master at the top of his game." Now Klima takes us into the heart of contemporary Prague, where the Communist People's Militia of the Stalinist era marches headlong into the drug culture of the present.Kristyna is in her forties, the divorced mother of a rebellious fifteen-year-old daughter, Jana. She is beginning to lov...