Karel Čapek

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• ISBN 978-0810114685
• 348 Pages •5.2 x 7.7"
• $22.95
Lydia Millet On Karel Capek’s War With the Newts
12/20/2011
I first encountered the bulgy-eyed protagonists of Karel Capek’s monumentally great — poignant! and hilarious! — 1937 novel War With the Newts when I was in my early 20s, living in L.A. and working as a peon copy editor at Hustler Magazine. Andrias Scheuchzeri, a species of newt first discovered (according to the book) by…
• Book: War With the Newts
• Author: Karel Čapek
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:Lydia Millet
Lydia Millet is the author of Ghost Lights, a novel recently released from Norton, as well as Love In Infant Monkeys, How the Dead Dream, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, Everyone’s Pretty, and My Happy Life, which won the 2003 PEN/USA Award for Fiction.