Drawn from his two previously untranslated collections, 'Lovers for a Day' and 'Intimate Conversations', his most recent, these stories span Ivan Klima's career, from exiled dissident to celebrated author, and form a personal history of Prague that is an acute and moving examination of our attempts to find freedom in love. Portraits of the dreams and frustrations of students, assembly-line workers and political exiles under Communist rule evolve into studies of people struggling with responsibility, fidelity and absence, haunted by guilt when their desires begin to become reality.
