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My mother is half czech, making me a quarter, and we share a special interest in our heritage from that country. Antonia lloydjones one of europes most preeminent investigative journalists travels to the czech republicthe czech half of the former czechoslovakia, the land that brought us kafkato explore the surreal fictions. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Mostly true stories from half of czechoslovakia which were very happy to be publishing this weekis that of bata shoes, a czech footwear empire that, over the course of the twentieth century. Or the story of kafkas niece, who loaned her name to writers blacklisted under the communist regime so they could keep publishing.

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