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A now classic memoir, described by Doris Grumbach as "unusually elegant and meditative," once more available with an updated afterword by the author. Golden Prague seemed mostly gray when Patricia Hampl first went there in quest of her Czech heritage. In that bleak time, no one could have... read more

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First Sentence

I WAS FIVE and was sitting on the floor of the vestibule hallway of my grandmother's house where the one bookcase had been pushed.

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  1. Patricia Hampl (Author)
 

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