Résultats pour "Prague" dans Europe

“A riveting tale of her family’s experience in Europe during World War II [and] a well-wrought political history of the region, told with great authority. . . . More than a memoir, this is a book of facts and action, a chronicle of a war in progress from a partisan faithful to the idea of...

After losing 25 members of their family in the Holocaust, the author and his parents escape a brutal Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, transforming themselves in a single day from one of their native country’s wealthiest families to stateless refugees with all their assets contained in three suitcases. Young Charlie’s father orders him to speak English without an accent and to become a “100% American.”

Two newly translated works from one of the greatest literary writers and thinkers of the modern age, available together in English for the first time. Translating a work from its original language can be complicated; it’s a complex art that can easily mar and twist the intent and meaning of a...