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Love and freedom : my unexpected life in Prague / Rosemary Kavan ; forward by Arthur Miller ; introduction by William Shawcross ; epilogue by Jan Kavan.
- Title
- Love and freedom : my unexpected life in Prague / Rosemary Kavan ; forward by Arthur Miller ; introduction by William Shawcross ; epilogue by Jan Kavan.
- Author
- Kavan, Rosemary.
- Publication
- New York : Hill and Wang, 1988, c1985.
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- Description
- xv, 278 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- This is a brave book that deserves to be better known. Rosemary Kavan, an Englishwoman who was married to a Czech, unforgettably portrays life in post-war Prague, from the early optimistic years, through the nightmare of the Stalinist purges up to the false Prague Spring of 1968 and its aftermath. Her husband, Pavel, a devoted Communist, was a victim of the show-trials of the early 1950s. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He died in 1960 soon after his release. Branded a traitor's wife, Rosemary Kavan struggled to support herself and her two sons. She worked as a translator, a drill operator in a factory, and a tracer of blue-prints for the state railways. In the mid-1960s she became involved in the student reform movement, but the Russian invasion of 1968 drove both her sons into exile and finally she herself was forced to escape to England.
- Uniform Title
- Freedom at a price
- Alternative Title
- Freedom at a price
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Note
- Previously published as: Freedom at a price. 1985.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0809046806 :
- LCCN
- ^^^88009733^
- OCLC
- 17804287
- SCSB-10851423
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library