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Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia

Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia

Michal Viewegh
3.4/5 ( ratings)
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MICHAL VIEWEGH's short and witty novel
Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia
is the story of Beata Kralova and her not-so-young tutor. Beata is a 20-year-old drop-out and daughter of Denis Kral , a Czech "new millionaire" of dubious connections. Beata embraces lover after lover as well as causes new to Eastern Europe: the environment, animal rights, feminism, consumerism, new-age religion.

This satirical look at Prague today by the best of the new Czech writers entertains with a parade of unnforgettable characters, the new mafiosi and their ex-secret police bodyguards, the expatriate Americans, and many an extraordinary Czech, from a cremation enthusiast to a hopelessly na�ve sex-education teacher.

The novel is also a serious exploration of the role of the writer in post-communist Central Europe. The narrator, himself a writer and teacher who is in love with Beata, must portray her fate in terms that explain her nihilism without losing faith in his own positive craft of story- telling. His hard-won credo as artist is to be an entertainer in a world of newly felt cruelty and suffering.
Language
English
Pages
222
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Readers International
Release
September 01, 2018
ISBN
1887378057
ISBN 13
9781887378055

Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia

Michal Viewegh
3.4/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
MICHAL VIEWEGH's short and witty novel
Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia
is the story of Beata Kralova and her not-so-young tutor. Beata is a 20-year-old drop-out and daughter of Denis Kral , a Czech "new millionaire" of dubious connections. Beata embraces lover after lover as well as causes new to Eastern Europe: the environment, animal rights, feminism, consumerism, new-age religion.

This satirical look at Prague today by the best of the new Czech writers entertains with a parade of unnforgettable characters, the new mafiosi and their ex-secret police bodyguards, the expatriate Americans, and many an extraordinary Czech, from a cremation enthusiast to a hopelessly na�ve sex-education teacher.

The novel is also a serious exploration of the role of the writer in post-communist Central Europe. The narrator, himself a writer and teacher who is in love with Beata, must portray her fate in terms that explain her nihilism without losing faith in his own positive craft of story- telling. His hard-won credo as artist is to be an entertainer in a world of newly felt cruelty and suffering.
Language
English
Pages
222
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Readers International
Release
September 01, 2018
ISBN
1887378057
ISBN 13
9781887378055

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