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The narrator of Love and Garbage has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress - an essay on Kafka - and exchanged his writer's pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. Gradually he admits the impossibility of being at once an honest writer and an honest lover, and with that agonising discovery comes a moment of choice.

A collection of essays charting five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia, including the Nazi occupation, the Stalinist regimes of the 1950s, the celebrations of the Prague Spring, the 1968 Soviet invasion, Charter 77, and the Velvet Revolution of 1989.

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Set in the present-day Czech Republic, this novel traces a year in the life of a Protestant pastor, Daniel Vedra. Ostensibly a happily married father of three, he is gradually beset by spiritual doubt and temptations, both physical and material.