When Eve Was Naked
Stories of a Life's Journey
This autobiography in stories, When Eve Was Naked, takes us through a most remarkable life, from the innocence of prewar Prague through the horrors of the Nazi occupation and World War II. In the title story, narrated by Skvorecky's alter-ego Danny Smiricky, seven-year-old Danny falls in love for the first time; at sixteen he hides in a railway station and watches as his Jewish teacher is herded onto a train and taken away; and in 1968, as Russian tanks rolled into Prague, Skvorecky flees Czechoslovakia, taking Danny with him. In the collection's final stories, Danny begins his tenure as Professor Smiricky at a Canadian university and attempt…
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- ISBN: 978-0-312-42173-1
- EAN: 9780312421731
- Produktnummer: 9437379
- Verlag: St. Martins Press-3pl
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.1 cm 468 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 468
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Josef Skvorecký
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