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“Love stories. Czech Novels" - about love for the Czech Republic and love in the Czech Republic. Prague prose writer Andrei Shary leads us along the tracks and biographies of outstanding personalities connected with this country by fate. Franz Kafka, Marina Tsvetaeva, Franz Ferdinand d'Este, Giacomo Casanova, Julius Fucik, Karel Capek, Charles of Luxembourg - here they planned great achievements, created great politics, and composed immortal poems and novels. Here their strong emotions - the thirst for power and glory, political fanaticism, creative impulses - were intertwined with passion and romantic torment. They all dreamed of happiness, were looking for love... But not everyone could find it.
The book, a journey into the past and present of the Czech Republic, combines travelogue and biographical essays, written with a deep knowledge of the facts and subtle irony. A book for everyone who loves: the Czech Republic, history... and just loves.