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When Eve Was Naked
Stories of a Life's Journey
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Artikel-Nr:
9780312421731
Veröffentl:
2003
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.07.2003
Seiten:
368
Autor:
Josef Skvorecky
Gewicht:
519 g
Format:
216x140x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Josef Skvorecký
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 attempts to come to terms with the politically innocent and self-centered youth that flock to his courses.