Missed Love
by (czech Republic) Zdanek Sverak
About This Novel
Laugh until you can't stop, laugh until you shed tears! "Missed Love" is the Oscar-winning screenwriter for the best foreign language film and Czech literary short story master Sverak. Following the release of his first novel collection "The Female Spectator" at the age of 72, it is another brand-new work. It is the second part of Sverak's "Prague Stories" series. After its publication, it immediately topped the best-seller list and won the 2012 "Reader's Award" from the Czech heavyweight magnesium literature. "Missed Love" includes nine stories: "Light in Bethlehem", "Class Party", "Missed Love", "Double Vision", "Spa", "Shopping", "Respectable Taxi Driver", "On the Train" and "April Story". The protagonists of these stories include a mentally retarded son, an old man suffering from double vision, a girlfriend who was wrongly loved, a respectable taxi driver, a couple who quarrels all day long, a patient who always suffers injuries on the same day of the year, etc. It's still an ordinary person in Prague, and it's still a story that makes people laugh until they can't stop, or laugh and shed tears.
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