Ivan Klíma

My Golden Trades

Trans. Paul Wilson
My Golden Trades My Golden Trades
Penguin Books, 1993, 288 pp
Language: English
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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.

Information about the original Czech edition

Moje zlatá řemesla

Penguin Books, 1993, 288 pp
Language: English