Povídky. Short stories by Czech women

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This collection brings together authors of different generations, styles and backgrounds.A lyrical, mysterious tour through Prague mixes history with legend and everyday reality. A child's philosophical reflections on the Christian concept of sinfulness lead him to resolve to sin 'just a little bit'. A witty style informs stories of drunken men bantering over interminable card games, teenage girls smoking in school toilets, and a woman whose salvation comes in the unexpected form of pickled men's buttocks. For the first time in an anthology of translated Czech literature, this book also features two short stories written by Czech Roma.These Czech women express their multiple perspectives on social and intimate issues with sometimes biting, sometimes gentle, insight into human nature. Nancy Hawker is reading Languages and Cultures at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Raised in France and the Czech Republic, in the course of her studies she has absorbed English, French, Czech, Hebrew and Arabic literature.For the compilation of Povídky, she explored every obscure literary cafe of her home town, Prague.