A novel of one desperate woman’s hopes and desires set in contemporary Prague from “a literary gem who is too little appreciated in the West” (The Boston
Angels and saints. Catholics tend to think of them as different from the rest of us. They’re cast in plaster or simpering on a holy card, performing miracles
A gorgeously illustrated co-publication with Christine Burgin by “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times). With a guide to the illustrati
This work explores the lives of the saints, and the hierarchies of angels. It gives details of the lives and works of the most famous saints from around the wor
This short story collection spanning the celebrated Czech author’s career is a “taxonomic survey of Eros . . . [by] a writer at the top of his form” (The