🇨🇿 Happy 89th Birthday to our most prolific author, Ivan Klíma. 📚 His memoir, MY CRAZY CENTURY, was called “masterful” by Philip Roth and “brilliant, witty and poignant” by Madeleine Albright. It recounts his extraordinary life lived under totalitarianism, first as a child in the Nazi concentration camps, to the communist show trials in his Czechoslovakia, to his life as a dissident writer through the Prague Spring and ultimately the Velvet Revolution. His examination of oppression and censorship is even more important and meaningful now. If you’ve never read any of Klima’s 30+ novels, we highly recommend LOVE AND GARBAGE; WAITING FOR DARK, WAITING FOR LIGHT; FOR THE LOVE OF PRAGUE; NO SAINTS OR ANGELS; JUDGE ON TRIAL; and LOVERS FOR A DAY. Vsechno nejlepsi, Ivan! 🎂

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