Our Book Club: The Caravan of Eastern European Books Milan Kundera’s mostly read novel worldwide, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, explores Prague in the late 1960s and 1970s, a period of great political turmoil, when personal histories of passion, artistic and existential struggles were crushed and reshaped by History’s “Grand March”, as he entitles one […]

“Joseph Strauss (a dentist and bachelor, client of the Eleven Titties brothel and of Der Große Bär beer cellar) leaves Prussia in the spring of 1866 and follows a captain of dragoons to Bucharest, where the officer is to ascend the throne as prince of the United Principalities of Romania. War is imminent in central Europe, but the company […]