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A collection of essays by an eminent Czechoslovakian novelist explores the turbulent history of Prague over the past fifty years, the author's childhood experience in a concentration camp, the work of Franz Kafka, and the meaning of hope. Original. IP.

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I AM TRYING to reach, in memory, to a time before the war began.
 

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