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Gregor Samsa wakes as an insect and his family adjusts; Kafka in sixty pages.

K. tries to reach the authorities in a snowbound village and never does; unfinished, mid-sentence.

Two girls named Marie decide to be as bad as the world; Vera Chytilova's anarchic collage.

An officer demonstrates the machine that writes a condemned man's sentence into his back over twelve hours.

An idiot, or a genius, in the Austro-Hungarian army; the funniest book about a war.

Prague under mechanical apartheid; the best level design in the series.

Tomas, Tereza and Sabina in Prague 1968; Kundera's novel of philosophy and sex.

A womanising Prague cellist is stuck with a five-year-old Russian boy in 1989.