The Hideout - Couverture souple

Hostovsky, Egon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782272402 ISBN 13 : 9781782272403

Editeur : Pushkin Press, 2017

Synopsis

A powerful and moving novel about one man's final, fatal, heroic act of resistance in Nazi France

When a Czech engineer arrives in Paris in 1939, he cannot know that three years later he will be in hiding, confined to the damp, dark cellar of a French doctor. Alone with his memories, he writes to his "dearest Hanichka", confessing everything: the hope of a love affair for which he travelled to Paris, the discovery of the German warrant for his arrest, and the murder he was forced to commit.

A claustrophobic classic of Czech literature, The Hideout is one man's last love letter to his wife. As he contends with his failing eyesight and the loss of his teeth, so too must he grapple with the guilt of leaving his family and the dwindling hope of ever returning home.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Egon Hostovsky (1908-1973) was the youngest of eight children in a Jewish family in Czechoslovakia. When the Germans occupied the country, he fled the country and ended up in New York, where he worked at the exiled Czechoslovakian government's consulate. He is one of the authors who shaped Czech literature during the inter-war period, and who helped give form to the emergence of Central European literature represented by writers such as Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth and Stefan Zweig (he and Zweig were cousins).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pushkin Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782272402
• ISBN 13: 9781782272403
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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