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Prague Spring

By Simon Mawer

Prague Spring Contemporary literature

Prague Spring

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'Prague Spring is a wonderfully atmospheric portrait of the city as well as a political and historical thriller with dashes of espionage. It is as brilliant as anything he has written, which is saying a lot' The Times It's the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent, and themselves, to discover. Somewhere in southern Germany they decide, on a whim, to visit Czechoslovakia where Alexander Dubcek's 'socialism with a human face' is smiling on the world. Meanwhile Sam Wareham, a first secretary at the British embassy in Prague, is observing developments in the country with a mixture of diplomatic cynicism and a young man's passion. In the company of Czech student Lenka Konecková, he finds a way into the world of Czechoslovak youth, its hopes and its ideas. It seems that, for the first time, nothing is off limits behind the Iron Curtain. Yet the wheels of politics are grinding in the background. The Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev is making demands of Dubcek and the Red Army is massed on the borders. How will the looming disaster affect those fragile lives caught up in the invasion?
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
400
Release Date:
2019-05-02
Publication Date:
2019-05-02
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0349143307
ISBN13:
9780349143309
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
313 g
Height:
123 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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