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Mawer, Simon

 
9780349143309: Prague Spring
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ISBN 10: 0349143307 ISBN 13: 9780349143309
Editorial: Abacus, 2019

Sinopsis

'Prague Spring is a wonderfully atmospheric portrait of the city as well as a political and historical thriller with dashes of espionage. It is as brilliant as anything he has written, which is saying a lot' The Times


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 man's passion. In the company of Czech student Lenka Konecková, he finds a way into the world of Czechoslovak youth, its hopes and its ideas. It seems that, for the first time, nothing is off limits behind the Iron Curtain.

Yet the wheels of politics are grinding in the background. The Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev is making demands of Dubcek and the Red Army is massed on the borders. How will the looming disaster affect those fragile lives caught up in the invasion?

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Acerca del autor

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 while he taught at the British International School in Rome. He and his wife currently divide their time between Italy and Hastings. Simon Mawer is the author of several novels including the Man Booker shortlisted The Glass Room, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, Tightrope and Prague Spring.

De la contraportada

1968. Prague.

Two British students are hitchhiking across Europe.

A young diplomat is trying to smuggle a high-profile defector to safety.

The Red Army masses on the border.

A city in crisis and a world on the brink.

Prague Spring.


'Mawer is a superb chronicler of past events in foreign countries, and Prague Spring is a wonderfully atmospheric portrait of the city as well as a political and historical thriller with dashes of espionage. It is as brilliant as anything he has written, which is saying a lot' Marcel Berlins, The Times

'Masterly and chilling . . . it is very good indeed' Scotsman

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Editorial
Abacus
Año de publicación
2019
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0349143307
ISBN 13 
9780349143309
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
400
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
Hachette Ireland
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