The Return: the title of Petra Dvořáková’s new novel set in a convent, but also a unifying theme for many of the Czech fiction titles published this spring by the prestigious Host house.
Petra Dvořáková’s novel returns us to the early 1990s, Jakuba Katalpa’s “Liebesroman” Úlice takes us back to the Protectorate years, while readers of the unique, richly illustrated short-story collection The Sudetenland: Paradise Lost / Sudety. Ztracený ráj will find themselves even further back in history. František Voldřich’s novel Heroes of Nothing / Hrdinové ničeho, an adrenaline-fuelled statement from Generation Z, represents a return to the self. Meanwhile, the solitary protagonists of Alena Mornštajnová’s latest novel The Time of Wasps / Čas vos look to the past to find a way to escape its shadow.
Note: The spring 2025 edition of Host’s foreign rights catalogue is dedicated exclusively to fiction.
7. 3. 2025
