- Biography, Childhood and youth, Czech Authors, Family & Relationships
Equal parts testimony to the struggles of a bygone era and a love letter to a bright-eyed childhood that no outside force could dim, this is Dominika Dery's acclaimed memoir of Communist-era Czechoslovakia.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Dominika Dery
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 349
- Publisher
- Riverhead Trade, Penguin USA, Inc., Penguin Publishing Group
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781440604409
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