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The Liberating Beauty of Little Things Decision, Adversity & Reckoning in a Refugee's Journey from Prague to Cambridge
Bohuslava Bradbrook
Bohuslava R. Bradbrook
was born in Czechoslovakia
and educated at the universities of Prague, Innsbruck and Oxford.
She lives now in Cambridge, and is the author of Karel Capek:
In Pursuit of Truth, Tolerance and Trust, as well as numerous
articles and reviews on Czech literature in scholarly journals,
symposia and the Encyclopedia of World Literature in the
20th Century.
This book is the story of an academic’s escape from Czechoslovakia
to England at the height of the Cold War. It is a poignant and timely
reminder of the hardships and life without basic freedoms endured
under Communism. It is also a documentary of the politics, sociology
and history of those turbulent years in Europe as they influenced
and restrained the life of academics under the yoke of Communism.
… Ten years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, a younger
generation is already beginning to forget what made it imperative
for so many individuals to leave their homes in Central Europe,
in order to gain freedom and to demonstrate to the communist authorities,
the families and friends they left behind and their new hosts, just
how important their escape to Liberty was.
List of Contents to follow
Publication Details
ISBN:
978-1-898595-34-2 p/b
Page Extent / Format:
112 pp. / 229 x 152 mm
Release Date:
August 2000
Illustrated:
No
Paperback Price:
£12.95 / $22.95
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