Alexandra Baumrucker Boeken

Adam, a judge in Communist Czechoslovakia, falls under government suspicion after travelling abroad and being seen with the wrong people. So as to prove his political credentials, he is asked to deliver a verdict of guilty on a suspected murderer. By the author of "A Summer Affair".

Eines der wichtigsten literarischen Werke der Nachkriegszeit. New York Review of Books

Trekantdrama fra Tjekkoslovakiet om en ambitiøs videnskabsmand, som er parat til at ofre såvel karrieren som sit falmede ægteskab, da han møder en meget yngre kvinde, en rodløs og uberegnelig skuespiller

Originally published: London: Jarrolds, 1931.

The stories in this collection span Ivan Klima's career, from exiled dissident to celebrated author, and form a personal history of Prague that is an examination of our attempts to find freedom in love.