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| Author | Eva Kantůrková |
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| Original title | Přítelkyně z domu smutku |
| Language | Czech |
| Subject | Political imprisonment, incarceration of women |
| Genre | Fiction, memoir |
| Set in | Ruzyně, Prague |
Publication date | 1984 (Cologne), 1990 (Prague) |
Published in English | 1987 |
| Pages | 304 (English) |
| Awards | Tom Stoppard Prize |
| ISBN | 978-0-87951-289-7 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+1⁄2-hour miniseries, which won two awards at the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels.