- 2008 edition. 242 pages.
- Published by Portobello Books Ltd, London.
- Paperback. Format B.
- Very good condition. First name written on first page.
'My mother knew a man during the war. Theirs was a love story, and like any good love story, it left blood on the floor and wreckage in its wake.'
As a boy growing up in New York, his parents' memories of their Czech homeland seem to belong to another world, as distant and unreal as the fairy tales his father tells him.
It is only as an adult, when he makes his own journey to Prague, that he is finally able to piece together the truth of his parents' past: what they did, who his mother loved, and why they were never able to forget.
'The novel skilfully conveys the irony of wartime love stories, and ends with plot twists that wring out pure romance, in the style of Milan Kundera and Michael Ondaatje. This is a deft mix of history, memoir and fiction.' - Sunday Telegraph.
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