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ISBN 1 84659 007 8
Genre: Fiction
Publication: 25 May 2006
Format: 13 x 20 cm
Edition: Paperback
Pages: 210pp
Price: £9.99

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About the Editor
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.

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About the Contributors
Berková: Who gave, I ask you, you self-appointed inquisitors, who gave you the right to represent your own shallow interests as the interests of the people of this land? (The pot-bellies nod and exhale mist. The pot-belly with the curly tuft takes notes.)
Not only feminist, not only cynical, not only political, the Czech women writers in this collection re-present some perspectives of some people of their land...

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Reviews

'"What is the selling-point of post-Communist literature?" If that is indeed the question, then the humour, acuity and inventiveness of many stories in Povidky must be part of the answer."

- Maya Jaggi, The Guardian

"Wonderfully diverse, energetic and entertaining".

Bernie Higgins, One Eye Open

"Wonderfully diverse, energetic and entertaining".

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Milena Hübschmannová was a scholar of Roma studies who helped me in my research to include short stories by Czech Roma writers in Povídky. It is with great sorrow that I add my note to the condolences following her tragic...

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Until now Jakub had gone to great lengths in order to get into heaven. He did not take God's name in vain, he did not indulge in sinful thoughts and he almost never stole anything. Suddenly that seemed easy, or at least a lot easier than what was ahead of him. For from this day on he must live in sin.

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