Judge on Trial - Couverture rigide

Klima, Ivan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 070113349X ISBN 13 : 9780701133498

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 1991

Synopsis

Adam, a judge in Communist Czechoslovakia, falls under government suspicion after travelling abroad and being seen with the wrong people. In order to prove his political credentials, he is asked to deliver a verdict of guilty on a suspected murderer.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Judge On Trial is Ivan Kl-ma's epic novel about those who stayed in Prague after 1968. When middle-aged judge Adam Kindl is asked not only to try a double murder case but is also expected to find the accused guilty it is his own shattered faith in the political system that is put on trial. To understand the crises he is experiencing in both his professional and personal life, Adam has to confront his own and his country's past which has been mis-shapen first by Nazism, then Stalinism, the false hope of the Prague Spring and the collaborationist regime that followed.

Biographie de l'auteur

Ivan Kl-ma was born in 1931 in Prague. He was the editor of the journal of the Czech Writer's Union during the Prague Spring. In 1969 he was a visiting professor to the University of Michigan. He returned to Czechoslovakia the following year.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 070113349X
• ISBN 13: 9780701133498
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 560
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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