1991 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
The story centres around a small-town girl, Hana, and is set in Czechoslovakia from the 1950s to the eve of the 1989 revolution. Events, both political and personal, involve Hana in a dramatic search for her freedom, involving betrayal, sexual obsession and flight.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction
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