Convictions by Jo Langer
A searingly honest and moving memoir of a young woman's political awakening and disillusionment, and a gripping first-person account of life in Communist Czechoslovakia.
Jo Langer was born in Budapest in 1912. In 1934 she married a young communist militant, Oskar Langer, and they moved to his homeland, Czechoslovakia. In 1938 they escaped the Holocaust by emigrating to the US, returning to their home in Czechoslovakia after the war. Oskar Langer was arrested and imprisoned in 1951, and died not long after his release ten years later. After the Soviet invasion in 1968, Jo Langer emigrated with her family once more, this time to Sweden. She died in 1990.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847083388 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847083382 |
| Title | Convictions |
| Author | Jo Langer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2011-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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