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Published by Potobello, US, 2008
ISBN 10: 1846271606ISBN 13: 9781846271601
Seller: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Mark Slouka's novel begins with the child of Czech immigrants to the US, no w living in New York, who has been brought up on the folklore of his parent s' homeland. As he grows up he becomes aware that he has never been told wh at his parents did during the Nazi occupation of Prague. As an adult he mak es a journey back to Czechoslovakia and it is only then that he discovers t heir part in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious "butcher of Prague" and begins to understand his mother Ivana's unhappiness. Intert wined with this gripping history is a passionate love story, the tragic con sequences of which transcend both years and continents.