{"product_id":"gottland-mostly-true-stories-from-half-of-czechoslovakia","title":"Gottland: Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia","description":"Winner of the Europe Book Prize\n\nOne of Europe’s most preeminent investigative journalists travels to the Czech Republic—the Czech half of the former Czechoslovakia, the land that brought us Kafka—to explore the surreal fictions and the extraordinary reality of its twentieth century.\n\nFor example, there’s the story of the small businessman who adopted Henry Ford’s ideas on productivity to create the world’s largest shoe company—and hired modernist giants such as Le Corbusier to design his company towns (which were also the birthplaces of Ivana Trump and Tom Stoppard).\n\nOr the story of Kafka’s niece, who loaned her name to writers blacklisted under the Communist regime so they could keep publishing.\n\nOr the story of the singer Karel Gott, winner of the country’s Best Male Vocalist Award thirty-six years in a row, whose summer home, Gottland, is the Czech Dollywood.\n\nBased on meticulous research and hundreds of interviews with everyone from filmmakers to writers to pop stars to ordinary citizens, Gottland is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a resilient people living through difficult and often bizarre times—equally funny, disturbing, stirring and absurd . . . in a word, Kafkaesque.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1612193137\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: GBV.1612193137.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Szczygiel, Mariusz|Lloyd-Jones, Antonia\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Has a sturdy binding with some shelf wear. May have some markings or highlighting. Used copies may not include access codes or Cd's. Slight bending may be present.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Good Books Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55879522582833,"sku":"GBV.1612193137.G","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0914\/3730\/2065\/files\/1612193137-0.jpg?v=1787520608","url":"https:\/\/goodbookscompany.org\/products\/gottland-mostly-true-stories-from-half-of-czechoslovakia","provider":"Good Books Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}