The Silent Woman by Monika Zgustova
A rapturous novel of love, longing, and exile, The Silent Woman depicts a twentieth century woman's life against a backdrop of war and political turmoil. Sylva, half Czech and half German, is born into an aristocratic family and lives in a castle outside Prague. She marries a man she doesn't love and is seduced by the joyful madness of Paris in the 1920s as an ambassador's wife. When the Nazis force her to state her loyalty, she capitulates, not realizing how this decision will inform and haunt the rest of her life. Sylva's story is interwoven with a contemporary sex chronicle of her son Jan, a world-renowned mathematician and migr living in the United States, who exudes the restlessness of a man without a country.
Monika Zgustova is an award-winning author whose works have been published in ten languages. She was born in Prague and studied comparative literature in the United States (University of Illinois and University of Chicago). She then moved to Barcelona, where she writes for El Paü¾™†”¼s, The Nation, and CounterPunch, among others. As a translator of Czech and Russian literature into Spanish and Catalan--including the writing of Havel, Kundera, Hrabal, Hasek, Dostoyevsky, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, and Babel--Zgustova is credited with bringing major twentieth-century writers to Spain. Julie Jones is Professor Emeritus of Spanish at the University of New Orleans. She has published widely on the Latin American writers of the Boom, with a focus on Luis Buü¾Œ–˜¼uel's work, in numerous articles for journals such as Cineaste and Cinema Journal.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781558618411 |
| ISBN 10 | 1558618414 |
| Title | The Silent Woman |
| Author | Monika Zgustova |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The Feminist Press At Cuny |
| Year published | 2014-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 374 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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