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BOOK TIP: "Grandhotel"

the new novel by the successful Czech author Jaroslav Rudiš

(born in northern Bohemia in 1972) appears in September 2006 published by Labyrint (180 pages, in Czech). It is a story about love, loneliness, frustration and the longing to realise one’s own dreams. Rudiš adapted his novel for the script of a film with the same name by Czech director David Ondříček that will be launched in Czech cinemas this year.
Rudiš, who is culture editor of the daily newspaper Právo, also writes prose and, theatre plays as well as song texts for his rock band U-Bahn. Jaroslav Rudiš lives in Prague.
In 2004 his highly praised debut novel Der Himmel unter Berlin appeared in Eva Profousová’s German translation at Rowohlt Verlag Berlin and was also translated into other languages. This comic-style novel (FAZ: ‘agreeably unagitated’), describes Berlin as seen  from the perspective of the underground railway.

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