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Prague Spring
Simon Mawer
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Description for Prague Spring
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408711156
SKU
9781408711156
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Ref
99-2
About Simon Mawer
Simon Mawer was born in 1948 in England, and spent his childhood there, in Cyprus and in Malta. He then moved to Italy, where he and his family lived for more than thirty years, and taught at the British International School in Rome. He and his wife currently live in Hastings. Simon Mawer is the author of several novels including ... Read more
Reviews for Prague Spring
Prague Spring...plunges into the heady days of 1968: the pleasures of new freedoms, the hopes that were brutally crushed, and the politics, both behind the scenes and in the streets. All that you would want from a novel
Australian Book Review, Best Books of the Year
Mawer brilliantly captures the differing shades of naivete and world weariness that ... Read more
Australian Book Review, Best Books of the Year
Mawer brilliantly captures the differing shades of naivete and world weariness that ... Read more