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aneb židovská dobrodružství křesťanského chlapce, když skončilo šoa

Karl von Wetzky

To be published: Q4 2024

Gojele. The Jewish adventures of a Christian boy after the end of Shoah. Gojele is a semi-autobiographical novel that tells a story of a twelve-year-old German boy. After World War II, owing to administrative oversight, the boy found himself with his mother in northern Moravia. It was a place in the former Sudetenland (Weidenitz – Vidnava) near the Polish border, where Jews returning from concentration camps were gathered before they were supposed to move to Palestine. Meanwhile, the intended destination for the boy and his mother was actually one of the gathering places for Sudeten Germans before their expulsion from Czechoslovakia (Weidenau – Vidnice).

Béatrice Kahn

To be published: Q4 2024

Underwear. The compelling prose Les Dessous (Underwear, 2020) follows three different girls, all of them on the cusp of adulthood. In a small French town in 1963, Elisabeth, hidden under a café table, listens to adult conversations. It’s the day of her friend Thérese’s funeral and she is also reading the diary of Henriette, a Jewish girl, who suffered persecution during the war. Secrets kept undisclosed in the French post-war small town are gradually coming to light. The world of teenage girls is confronted with the adult world, with war and collaboration, conformity and social violence, with large and small betrayals.

Stalin, Hitler a příběh jedné vražedné aliance 1939–1941

Claudia Weber

To be published: Q1 2024

The Pact. Stalin, Hitler and the Story of a Murderous Alliance 1939–1941. Hitler’s alliance with Stalin, known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, was not only a temporary armstice between the two totalitarian world powers but practically enabled the Nazi Germany to start the World War II by attacking Poland and simultaneously enabled the Stalinist Soviet Union to occupy the Baltic states and after the war with Finland a part of its territory, too. Thus during the first twenty-two months of the World War II the collaboration of the two dictators changed the political situation on the whole continent fundamentally.

Tanya Pyankova

To be published: Q4 2024

The Age of Red Ants. This title is the fourth novel of Taňa Pjankova. It tells a story about the so-called Holodomor period, i.e. Ukrainian famine, that took place between 1932 and 1933. The story follows three main characters – Dusya, Svyryd and Solya – whose fates are the result of almost three years of studying archival materials. As the author herself states, they are not fictitious characters. In addition to this three storylines, the author also handles the contrast between the dying traditional village and the Soviet system, interestingly working with the embodiment of Hunger as an allegorical figure.