BOOKS - When Eve Was Naked: Stories of a Life's Journey
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When Eve Was Naked: Stories of a Life's Journey
Author: Josef Skvorecky
Year: January 1, 2000
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.9 MB
Language: English
Year: January 1, 2000
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.9 MB
Language: English
This autobiography in stories, When Eve Was Naked , takes us through a most remarkable life, from the innocence of prewar Prague through the horrors of the Nazi occupation and World War II. In the title story, narrated by Skvorecky's alter-ego Danny Smiricky, seven-year-old Danny falls in love for the first time; at sixteen he hides in a railway station and watches as his Jewish teacher is herded onto a train and taken away; and in 1968, as Russian tanks rolled into Prague, Skvorecky flees Czechoslovakia, taking Danny with him. In the collection's final stories, Danny begins his tenure as Professor Smiricky at a Canadian university and attempts to come to terms with the politically innocent and self-centered youth that flock to his courses.
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