Alexandra Baumrucker Livres

Adam, a judge in Communist Czechoslovakia, falls under government suspicion after travelling abroad and being seen with the wrong people. So as to prove his political credentials, he is asked to deliver a verdict of guilty on a suspected murderer. By the author of "A Summer Affair".

Eines der wichtigsten literarischen Werke der Nachkriegszeit. New York Review of Books

Trekantdrama fra Tjekkoslovakiet om en ambitiøs videnskabsmand, som er parat til at ofre såvel karrieren som sit falmede ægteskab, da han møder en meget yngre kvinde, en rodløs og uberegnelig skuespiller

Originally published: London: Jarrolds, 1931.

Drawn from the collections, "Lovers for a Day" and "Intimate Conversations", the stories in this book span the author's career and form a personal history of Prague. Dreams and frustrations of the student cafeteria in the 1960s evolve into portraits of young people struggling with responsibility.