One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
A "Los Angeles Times" review of the book wrote that "the clarity, the imagination, the wit, the odd detail, the light-filled corners of Kantůrková's darkest observations are in the best Czech literary tradition" and that it "may indeed be the best novel of its genre since Solzhenitsyn's far bleaker "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"."