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My Companions in the Bleak House
AuthorEva Kantůrková
Original titlePřítelkyně z domu smutku
LanguageCzech
SubjectPolitical imprisonment, incarceration of women
GenreFiction, memoir
Set inRuzyně, Prague
Publication date
1984 (Cologne), 1990 (Prague)
Published in English
1987
Pages304 (English)
AwardsTom Stoppard Prize
ISBN978-0-87951-289-7 1st US ed.

My Companions in the Bleak House (Czech: Přítelkyně z domu smutku) is a novel by Czech author Eva Kantůrková, first published in 1984, and was the first recipient of the Tom Stoppard Prize. It is a fictionalised account of Kantůrková's time in prison on charges of sedition in Communist Czechoslovakia. In 1992 it was adapted into a 4+12-hour miniseries, which won two awards at the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels.

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