B. Proudew

Helena Sou?kov?, an eight-year-old schoolgirl in a small provincial town, deals not only with the uniquely dismal side of life in communist Czechoslovakia, but also with more than a few universal issues, like death, school dinners, guilt, obtuse teachers, betrayal, love, Jewishness, annoying little brothers, almost absent fathers, cruel classmates, bogus adults, eerie daydreams and nightmares that reflect the society around her. A child of her time, Helena nevertheless rises above it all with her special blend of grit, common sense and dark imaginings, which speak to us today with clarity and power. Helena has come to be a well-known archetype that many can identify with. Hrd? Bud?es is now a firm family favourite in the Czech Republic and elsewhere in Central Europe. Mimo??dn? ?sp??n?, mnohokr?t dotiskovan? ?esk? bestseller. S p?isp?n?m divadeln? dramatizace, opakovan? uv?d?n? ?eskou televiz?, se stal Hrd? Bud?es jednou z nejzn?m?j??ch ?esk?ch pr?z vydan?ch po sametov? revoluci v roce 1989. Jen v ?esk? republice se prodalo v?ce ne? 60. 000 v?tisk?. Kniha vy?la v p?ekladech ji? v osmi zem?ch - v N?mecku, Bulharsku, Ma?arsku, Polsku, Slovinsku, B?lorusku, Bosn? a Hercegovin? a na Ukrajin?, nyn? vych?z? v p?ekladu do angli?tiny.