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or Murder on Steep Street
Soho Press
June 2015
On Sale: June 2, 2015
ISBN: 1616954965
EAN: 9781616954963
Kindle: B00NEUI6P4
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Non-Fiction Memoir | True Crime
Famed Holocaust memoirist Heda Margoulis Kovály (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.
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