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How I Came to Know Fish - Couverture souple

Pavel, Ota

 
9780241752289: How I Came to Know Fish
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0241752280 ISBN 13 : 9780241752289
Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2025

Synopsis

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‘Of all the sleep a man can have, the fisherman’s sleep is the sweetest. It is the greatest of luxuries – sleep and fishing.’

Through tender, vivid, and often humorous recollections – from magical fishing trips to the rivers and ponds of Bustehrad to his charismatic father’s eccentric business ventures - this bittersweet memoir tells the story of a childhood in Czechoslovakia, against the backdrop of World War II.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ota Pavel (1930-1973) worked for much of his short life as a journalist and sports reporter. Despite serious bouts of mental illness he wrote brilliant, lyrical accounts, some collected in How I Came to Know Fish, of his childhood and his family in a Czechoslovakia under overwhelming threat from Nazism.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Through tender, vivid, and often humorous recollections – from magical fishing trips to the rivers and ponds of Bustehrad to his charismatic father’s eccentric business ventures - this bittersweet memoir tells the story of a childhood in Czechoslovakia, against the backdrop of World War II.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Penguin Classics
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0241752280
ISBN 13 
9780241752289
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
144
Coordonnées du fabricant
Penguin
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