Prague Spring by Simon Mawer
New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story that mixes sex, politics, and betrayal. In the summer of 1968--a year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter--Oxford students James Borthwick and Eleanor Pike set out to hitchhike across Europe, complicating a budding friendship that could be something more. Having reached southern Germany, they decide on a whim to visit Czechoslovakia, where Alexander Dubček's socialism with a human face is smiling on the world. Meanwhile, Sam Wareham, First Secretary at the British embassy in Prague, is observing developments in the country with both a diplomat's cynicism and a young man's passion. In the company of Czech student Lenka Konečkov , he finds a way into the world of Czechoslovak youth, its hopes and its ideas. For the first time, nothing seems off limits behind the Iron Curtain. Yet the wheels of politics are grinding in the background. The Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev is making demands of Dubček, and the Red Army is amassed on the borders. How will the looming disaster affect those fragile lives caught up in the invasion? With this shrewd, engrossing, and sensual novel, Simon Mawer cements his status as one of the most talented writers of historical spy fiction today.Simon Mawer was born in the United Kingdom in 1948. In 1989, his first novel, Chimera, was awarded the McKitterick Award for First Novels. Dwarf (1997), Mendel's first novel published in the United States, was long-listed for the Man Booker Award and named a New York Times Book to Remember in 1998. After that came The Gospel of Judas, The Fall (winner of the 2003 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Writing), Swimming to Ithaca, and The Glass Room, his tenth and eighth novel, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize. In 2012, Trapeze (Other Press) was released.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781590519660 |
| ISBN 10 | 1590519663 |
| Title | Prague Spring |
| Author | Simon Mawer |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Other Press LLC |
| Year published | 2018-11-13 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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