Jan Novák Books

The story of the Masin brothers and their band waging guerilla war against the Communist regime in the early 1950s could be the most dramatic Czech tale of the 20th century. After their activities in Czechoslovakia, these young men headed west - facing off against 20,000 East German Volkspolizei and shooting their way to freedom. In the novel So Far, So Good, Novak wrote the story like a thrilling Czech Western and won the Magnesia Litera prize for Best Book of the Year. After the success of Novak's previous book with Jaromir 99, Zatopek, the authors return with an even more explosive comic book.

Enter Rat Park at your own risk. Lose the cage. Find yourself. An L.A. power couple orders an A.I. sex droid to escape their marital prison. What happens to them could happen to you. With his fourth novel, Adam Novak shows us how it takes a village of automatons to augment your humanity, feed your deceptive compulsive sexual addiction, and forget why you ever got married in the first place.

Skilled in both traditional and in freer forms, ranging in theme form the theology of guilt to the continuing possibilities of innocence, in mood from the frivolous to the sublime, the work of this most chameleon yet forceful of poets successfully evokes the outlines of his extraordinary personality, summoning before the reader what Barker himself once called 'The Face behind the Poem'.

An intoxicating, visually intense portrait of legendary runner Emil Zátopek Emil Zátopek is arguably the greatest Olympic champion of all time. The Czech runner's three gold medals at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics, for the 5,000 meter, 10,000 meter, and marathon, is an achievement that has never been matched. His success as a runner made him a national hero, but as a public figure, outspoken and unafraid to take a stand, he was equally impressive. Even before the Helsinki Games, Zátopek had scored a remarkable victory, successfully pressuring the communist regime to allow his colleague Stanislav Jungwirth, who until then had been excluded on political grounds, to compete. In Zátopek, Jan Novák and Jaromír 99 trace the extraordinary life and times of the great Olympian, from his first meeting with Dana, the love of his life, to the victories that would ensure his lasting legacy.

Kniha obsahuje tři jednoaktové hry Václava Havla v dvojjazyčném vydání. Audience, Vernisáž a Protest. Český originální text je vždy na protilehlé straně doplněn anglickým překladem. Překlad Jan Novák. Kniha je doplněna úvodním historickým kontextem a vzpomínkami Václava Havla na trutnovský pivovar.

Winner of the Carl Sandburg Award for nonfiction.