BRAK

Jana BEŇOVÁ

A portrait of Bratislava through its streets and the people who inhabit them. Combining essays, reportage and conversations, the book draws on two years of walking, observing and discovering the city’s less familiar corners.

Jana Beňová is a Slovak novelist, poet and journalist. Her novel Café Hyena (Plán odprevádzania) won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2012.

2020 - 344 pages - 13,5 X 21 cm - 17,90 € - ISBN: 978-80-89921-32-4

Elena LACKOVÁ

An autobiographical account offering an intimate perspective on Romani life, culture and history in twentieth-century Slovakia. Through vivid storytelling, Lacková brings together personal memories, community traditions and testimony to the persecution of Roma during the Second World War.

Elena Lacková (1921–2003) was a pioneering Romani writer and playwright, and one of the earliest authors to document the Romani Holocaust. Her work helped preserve Romani cultural memory and promote understanding between communities.

2023 - 344 pages - 13 X 19,6 cm (hardback) - 19,50 € - ISBN: 978-80-974409-1-6

Tomáš HUČKO

An intimate work of fiction exploring fatherhood, memory and the legacy of Slovakia’s turbulent 1990s. A father–son relationship becomes a meeting point between personal and collective history, inheritance and the onset of an incurable illness.

Tomáš Hučko is a Slovak writer, journalist and translator of English-language literature. He co-founded the cultural publication Kapitál and serves as its editor-in-chief. Strieborná metalíza is his second work of prose.

2025 - 132 pages - 10,5 X 17 cm (paperback) - 15,90 € - ISBN: 978-80-8286-070-5