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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Ivan Klima was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan in 1969.
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Original Language: Czech
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