6 Top czech literature books like Vějíř a meč by Vlasta Winkelhöferová

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Vějíř a meč

By: Vlasta Winkelhöferová

3.96

Format: 389 pages, hardcover

Kniha podává čtivě psaný výklad o vývoji japonské vzdělanosti a umění od prehistorické doby až do d…

If you liked the czech literature plot in Vějíř a meč by Vlasta Winkelhöferová , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal, Josef Škvorecký, Edith Pargeter

1. Closely Watched Trains

By: Bohumil Hrabal , Josef Škvorecký , Edith Pargeter

3.74

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

Bohumil Hrabal's post-war classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovak… read more

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  • czech literature
"آن غرش و سر و صدای یک قطار در حال حرکت،همیشه یکسان است،درست مثل زمان صلح که قطار، هر شب، مربع‌ها و مستطیل‌های نور را از پنجره‌های درخشان خود می‌پراکند."

-Bohumil Hrabal, Closely Watched Trains

Cover of One Piece, Volume 03: Don't Get Fooled Again (One Piece, #3) by Eiichiro Oda

2. One Piece, Volume 03: Don't Get Fooled Again (One Piece, #3)

By: Eiichiro Oda

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Sure, lots of people say they want to be the King of the Pirates, but how many have the guts to do … read more

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Cover of One Piece, Volume 02: Buggy the Clown (One Piece, #2) by Eiichiro Oda, Jason Thompson, None

3. One Piece, Volume 02: Buggy the Clown (One Piece, #2)

By: Eiichiro Oda , Jason Thompson , None

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

As a kid, Monkey D. Luffy vowed to become King of the Pirates and find the legendary treasure calle… read more

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4. Krysař

By: Viktor Dyk

3.69

Format: 79 pages, Paperback

Útlá knížka, jejímž jádrem je staroněmecká pověst, je vrcholem autorova prozaického díla, jakousi r… read more

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  • czech literature
"Srdce jest drobná a zcela zbytečná věc."

-Viktor Dyk, Krysař

"Nebylo třeba pomoci boží; pomohu si sám."

-Viktor Dyk, Krysař

"Mějte ženy, ale nedopouštějte, aby ženy měly vás."

-Viktor Dyk, Krysař

"Nejmenuji se; jsem nikdo. Jsem hůř než nikdo, jsem krysař."

-Viktor Dyk, Krysař

Cover of R.U.R. by Karel Čapek, Nigel Playfair, Paul Selver

5. R.U.R.

By: Karel Čapek , Nigel Playfair , Paul Selver

3.83

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

R.U.R.--written in 1920--garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word "Robot.… read more

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  • czech literature
"Nobody can hate man more than man."

-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

"nothing is stranger to man than his own image"

-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

"Robot" is a machine that makes the functions of a man."

-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

"A man has to be a bit mad [...]. That's the best thing about him."

-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

Cover of Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel

6. Kafka on the Shore

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

4.13

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable character… read more

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  • japanese literature
"In dreams begins responsiblities."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"I don’t know what it means to live."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"Artists are those who can evade the verbose."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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7. No Longer Human

By: Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene

3.99

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poign… read more

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  • japanese literature
  • japan
"Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

"He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

"Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

"I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

8. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

By: Tim Burton

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burtonhas … read more

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9. One Piece, Volume 01: Romance Dawn (One Piece, #1)

By: Eiichiro Oda , None

4.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

From back cover: EAST BLUE Part 1 As a child, Monkey D. Luffy was inspired to become a pirate by li… read more

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10. Kokoro

By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan

3.77

Format: None pages,

Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more

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Cover of Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1) by Aiden Thomas

11. Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

By: Aiden Thomas

4.27

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him. When his traditional Latinx famil… read more

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"But now your mess is my mess, too."

-Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

"What are you going to do, stab me ?"

-Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

"Maritza smiled. "Let's do this, brujo."

-Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

"Julian's chuckle was wet. "Valió ... la pena."

-Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

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12. The Memory Police

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.72

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, bird… read more

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  • japanese literature
  • japan
"No one can erase the stories!"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"Few people here have any need of novels"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"It's the most beautiful disappearance ever."

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"I stood in the middle of that emptiness, feeling myself on the verge of being drawn into its terrible depth"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

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13. Heaven

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.80

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-y… read more

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  • japanese literature
  • japan
"Karena kau selalu dilukai, kau sungguh-sungguh memahami seperti apakah orang terluka."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

"The more I looked at it, the less it seemed like something for a house. More like a tiny gravestone."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

"You think about how other people feel. You're so kind. It makes sense. Because we're always in pain, we know exactly what it means to hurt somebody else."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

"People are always dying. It's a perfect truth. No matter how we live our lives, we all die, sooner or later. In which case, living is really just waiting to die."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

Cover of Probudím se na Šibuji by Anna Cima

14. Probudím se na Šibuji

By: Anna Cima

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Když se sedmnáctiletá Jana dostane do vysněného Tokia, nejraději by zde zůstala navždy. Záhy se pře… read more

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  • czech literature
  • japan
Cover of Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima

15. Life for Sale

By: Yukio Mishima

3.72

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will … read more

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  • japanese literature
  • japan
"It's only the desire to live as long as possible that makes everything seem complicated and mysterious."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

"Když si rozsvítíš v malém pokoji modrou lampu, taky ti všechno zmodrá, ale tím se z toho pokoje ještě moře nestane."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

"A dead body reminds me a bit of a bottle of whisky. If you drop the bottle and it cracks, what’s inside pours out. It’s only natural."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

"To say human life had no meaning was the easy part. But Hanio was struck all over again by the huge amount of energy required to live a life filled with so much meaninglessness."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

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16. Nightbitch

By: Rachel Yoder

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else... A… read more

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"In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child."

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"Her secrets were the only things these days that were purely hers, things apart from mother and wife and middle-aged woman."

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?"

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"It had been so long since she had remembered all this, so long since she'd even thought of it, for there had been a great forgetting when she left home--a purposeful forgetting, because to forget her…"

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

Cover of Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1) by Elizabeth Lim

17. Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)

By: Elizabeth Lim

4.20

Format: 454 pages, ebook

A princess in exile, a shapeshifting dragon, six enchanted cranes, and an unspeakable curse... S… read more

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"Let’s play a game,"

-Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)

"Curiosity was my greatest weakness."

-Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)

"Fear is just a game. You win by playing."

-Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)

"You are my daughter, not of my blood, but of my heart."

-Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)

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18. Japonsko (Stručná historie států)

By: David Labus

3.96

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Kniha načrtává hlavní linie vývoje japonské civilizace od vzestupu císařského dvora, přes středověk… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • czech literature
  • japan
Cover of 99 zajímavostí z Japonska by Jiří Janoš

19. 99 zajímavostí z Japonska

By: Jiří Janoš

3.92

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Známá, a přece neznámá slova (Nippon, Mikado-Tennó, Fudži, Sakura, Kimono, ...), Minulost - tradice… read more

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  • japanese literature
  • japan
Cover of Dějiny Japonska by Edwin O. Reischauer

20. Dějiny Japonska

By: Edwin O. Reischauer

3.78

Format: 476 pages, Hardcover

Ve srovnání s jinými národy vypěstovala u Japonců jejich relativní ostrovní izolovanost mimo jiné z… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
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21. Vějíř a meč

By: Vlasta Winkelhöferová

3.96

Format: 389 pages, hardcover

Kniha podává čtivě psaný výklad o vývoji japonské vzdělanosti a umění od prehistorické doby až do d… read more

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  • japanese literature
  • nonfiction
  • czech literature
  • japan

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Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

4.13

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No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene

3.99

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Yōko Ogawa

3.72

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3.80

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Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus

3.66

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Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Mona Awad

3.56

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