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Progress in Prague
Ivan Klíma
‘People in the West are aware of the hardship and bewilderment that accompanied the political and economic transformation of central and eastern Europe after 1989.'
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A Childhood in Terezin
Ivan Klíma
‘I am trying to reach, in memory, a time before the war began.’
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The Night of the Railwaymen’s Ball
Ivan Klíma
‘The season of ballroom dancing was upon us and crime was on the increase. I have little interest in ballroom dancing – I don't dance.’
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Feminine Mystique
Josef Škvorecký
‘I don't think that’s such a hot idea. Resistance isn't for girls.’
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Letters from Prison
Václav Havel & Jiří Dienstbier
‘When the governor forbade Havel to write essays, ordering him to write only about himself, he started a series on his fifteen different moods.’
