Famed Holocaust memoirist Heda Margoulis Kovaly (Under a Cruel Star) knits her own terrifying experiences in Soviet Prague into a powerful, Raymond Chandler-esque work of literary suspense. 1950s Prague is a city of numerous small terrors, of political tyranny, corruption and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one's neighbor is spying for the government, or what one's supposed friend will say under pressure to a State Security agent. A loyal Party member might be imprisoned or executed as quickly as a traitor; innocence means nothing for a person caught in a government trap. But there are larger terrors, too. When a little boy is murdered at the cinema where his aunt works, the ensuing investigation sheds a little too much light on the personal lives of the cinema's female ushers, each of whom is hiding a dark secret of her own. Nearly lost to censorship, this rediscovered gem of Czech literature depicts a chilling moment in history, redolent with the stifling atmosphere of political and personal oppression of the early days of Communist Czechoslovakia. Story Locale- Prague, Czechoslovakia
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Soho Press Inc
ISBN-13
9781616956455
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221171835
Product Key Features
Book Title
Innocence: Or, Murder on Steep Street
Author
Heda Margolius Kovaly, Alex Zucker
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2016
Number of Pages
236 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
190mm
Item Width
127mm
Item Weight
193g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Alex Zucker, Heda Margolius Kovaly
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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