The new book by the famous writer Andrei Shary, author of intellectual bestsellers about Central and South-Eastern Europe, is dedicated to the country in which he has lived for a quarter of a century. The Czech Republic is located in the center of the Old World, on the border of the Slavic and Germanic worlds, and this largely determined its turbulent and rich history. Readers will learn about how the Czech Republic was formed, how it is structured, how it is developing, and how Czech time moves forward year after year, decade after decade, century after century. This is a fascinating journey through time and space: through key episodes of Czech history, along the perimeter of the Czech borders, through the pages of the main Czech books and through the biographies of famous Czechs. The homeland of Vaclav Havel and Jaroslav Hasek, Karel Gott and Jan Hus, Jaromir Jagr and Karel Capek seems to many to be a well-known country and at the same time often remains completely unknown. At the same time, “Czech Time” is also the author’s private story, a story about the search for orientation in alien environment, personal experience of entering an unfamiliar society. This is an attempt to understand where the Czech love of freedom and commitment to the ideals of civil society come from, a search for answers to questions about how the traditions of informal culture, uncensored art, a special sense of humor were formed in the Czech Republic, why Czech-Russian ties developed so uneasy, as in the relations between the two stereotypes of peoples arose and collapsed. The book is illustrated with the works of Prague photographer Olga Bazhenova. The publishing design is preserved in PDF A4 format.