An intergalactic odyssey of love, ambition, and self-discovery.
Kalfar\'s voice is distinct enough to leave tread marks.-Jennifer Senior, New York Times. . .
A frenetically imaginative first effort, booming with vitality and originality .
Very seldom has a novel this profound taken readers on a journey of such boundless entertainment and sheer fun.
Will it be enough to see Jakub through a clash with secret Russian rivals and return him safely to Earth for a second chance with Lenka? Rich with warmth and suspense and surprise, Spaceman of Bohemia is an exuberant delight from start to finish.
Over philosophical conversations about the nature of love, life and death, and the deliciousness of bacon, the pair form an intense and emotional bond.
Alone in Deep Space, Jakub discovers a possibly imaginary giant alien spider, who becomes his unlikely companion.
But in so doing, he leaves behind his devoted wife, Lenka, whose love, he realizes too late, he has sacrificed on the altar of his ambitions.
When a dangerous solo mission to Venus offers him both the chance at heroism he\'s dreamt of, and a way to atone for his father\'s sins as a Communist informer, he ventures boldly into the vast unknown.
Orphaned as a boy, raised in the Czech countryside by his doting grandparents, Jakub Prochv zka has risen from small-time scientist to become the country\'s first astronaut.
An intergalactic odyssey of love, ambition, and self-discovery
