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Product Description: Czechoslovakia, 1968. The Soviet troops have just invaded and, for the young orphan Ilya, life is suddenly turned on its head. At first there is relief that the mean-spirited nuns who run his orphanage have been driven out by the Red Army, but as the children are left to fend for themselves, order and routine quickly give way to brutality and chaos, and Ilya finds himself drawn into the violence...read more
Paperback:
9781846271625 | Reprint edition (Ingram Pub Services, August 1, 2013), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Czechoslovakia, 1968.
9781846271618 | Italian edition edition (Granta Books, May 6, 2010), cover price $21.40 | About this edition: Czechoslovakia, 1968.
Paperback:
9788483810538 | Italian edition edition (Lengua De Trapo, November 30, 2008), cover price $23.95
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9788496080973 | Lengua De Trapo, March 30, 2007, cover price $36.95
Product Description: Winner of the Egon Hostovský Prize as Czech book of the year when it was originally published in 1994, this epic novel powerfully captures the sense of dislocation that followed the Czechs' newfound freedom in 1989. More than just the story of its young protagonist--who is part businessman, part gang member, part drifter--it is a novel that includes terrifying dream scenes, Czech and Native American legends, a nightmarish East European flea market, comic scenes about the literary world, and an oddly tender story of the love between the protagonist and his spiritual sister...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780945774433 | Catbird Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Winner of the Egon Hostovský Prize as Czech book of the year when it was originally published in 1994, this epic novel powerfully captures the sense of dislocation that followed the Czechs' newfound freedom in 1989.
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9780945774457 | Catbird Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $19.95
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