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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Necklace/Choker: Then, Meanwhile, Now./A Small Novel in Fragments

Necklace/Choker: Then, Meanwhile, Now./A Small Novel in Fragments

Bodnárová, Jana
Gresty, Jonathan

Hardcover

Series: The Slovak List

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $21.00

ISBN10: 085742890X
ISBN13: 9780857428905
Publisher: Sea Boating
Published: Nov 14 2021
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
An engrossing novel about the lives in a small Slovak town during the tumultuous twentieth century.

In this highly acclaimed novel, Jana Bodnárová offers an engrossing portrayal of a small Slovak town and its inhabitants in the north of the country against the backdrop of the tumultuous history of the twentieth century. As Sara, the protagonist of Necklace/Choker, returns to her native town after many years in exile to sell the old family house and garden, she begins to piece together her family's history from snippets and fragments of her own memory and the diaries of her artist father, Imro. A talented painter, he survived the Holocaust only to be crushed by the constraints imposed on his art by Stalinist censorship, and Sara herself was later driven into exile after dreams of socialism with a human face were shattered by the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Through their stories, and that of Sara's friend, Iboja, the daughter of a hotelier, readers will be immersed in key moments of Slovak history and their bearing on the people in this less familiar part of Central Europe.

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