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by Ivan Klima (Author), Paul Wilson (Translator) "I HEARD A familiar voice coming over the phone ..." (more)

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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books / Granta (1 Oct 1992)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0140142223
ISBN-13: 978-0140142228
Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.5 x 2.6 cm

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One of the last artistic expressions of life under communism, this novel captures the atmosphere in Prague between 1983 and 1987, where a dance could be broken up by the secret police, a traffic offence could lead to surveillance and where contraband books were the currency of the underworld.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A human and uplifting book, 15 Nov 2000

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This is a great book. Klima pulls down the trappings of the conventional life. Work, politics, sex. And having done this he gets down to the essential characteristics of the people he describes. Why they are good, why they are bad and why they do what they do. He doesn't judge, but allows people's actions to speak for themselves. In some respects he could just as easily have written this book in a capitalist society. This is a book that will help you escape the bitterness of the world for a while. Not only that, but it may also improve your world view.

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