by Ivan Klı́ma · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781862071155
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«The Ultimate Intimacy» is a fiction novel by Czech writer Ivan Klíma, published by Granta in paperback (400 pages, in English).
Set in contemporary Czech Republic, it follows a year in the life of Daniel Vedra, a married Protestant pastor and father of three whose seemingly stable existence is disrupted by spiritual doubt and by physical and material temptations.
Original Czech title: «Poslední stupeň důvernosti» (1997). This English edition, translated from Czech, was published in 1998.
For readers of literary fiction who enjoy 20th-century Czech literature and novels about crises of faith.
Ivan Klíma was a Czech novelist and playwright. He received the Magnesia Litera award and the Franz Kafka Prize, among other honours.
