Jan Drabek has helped break new ground by translating Zdena Salivarova's Ashes, Ashes, All Fall Down for Sixty-Eight Publishers, the CzechCanadian firm managed by Salivarova, the wife of Governor-General Award winning Toronto writer Josef Skvorecky. After reading the novel in Czech, Drabek suggested the book ought to be available in English. Its release marks the birth of Larkwood Books, a separte English language imprint for Sixty-Eight Publishers, a mail order company that has produced 187 titles in Czech for expatriate Czechoslovakians around the world.

[BCBW Spring 1987]