Ota Pavel

How I Came to Know Fish

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting an account of the author's childhood in Czechoslovakia, this title features the tales of the his father's battle to provide for his family both in wealthy freedom and in terrifying persecution.

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Produktdetails

• Penguin Modern Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK / Penguin Classics
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 127mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 116g
• ISBN-13: 9780141192833
• ISBN-10: 0141192836
• Artikelnr.: 27368637

Autorenporträt

Ota Pavel (1930-1973) worked for much of his short life as a journalist and sports reporter. Despite serious bouts of mental illness he wrote brilliant, lyrical accounts, some collected in How I Came to Know Fish, of his childhood and his family in a Czechoslovakia under overwhelming threat from Nazism.

Rezensionen

A moving, bittersweet coming of age . . . A collection that works its magic quietly Kirkus Reviews