OMA BOOKS
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The first Czech astronaut drifts through space, remembering Prague and his past.
1599: a young doctor finds a murdered woman in the snow of Emperor Rudolf’s Prague.
1942: two parachutists try to kill Heydrich, the Nazi ruler of Prague.
1939–45: daily life in Prague under Nazi occupation, remembered and researched.
A Prague sex worker’s furious, funny monologue on the city after communism.
1968: love and exile in Prague, before and after the Prague Spring.
For 35 years, a Prague cellar worker has crushed banned books, saving the best.
A Prague dog-seller goes cheerfully to war for Austria-Hungary.
A dreamlike tale of Prague’s old Jewish ghetto and its legendary clay giant.
1928–1990: a modernist glass villa in Brno and the lives it shelters.