No Saints or Angels

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Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post
Ivan Klíma is one of the world's most important writers and, in No Saints or Angels, he takes us into the heart of contemporary Prague, where the Communist People's Militia of the Stalinist era marches headlong into the drug culture of the present. Kristyna is the divorced mother of a rebellious fifteen-year-old daughter, Jana. She is beginning to love a man fifteen years her junior, but her joy is clouded by worry—^Jana has been cutting school, and perhaps using heroin. Meanwhile Kristyna's mother has forced on her a huge box of personal papers left by her dead father, a tyrant whose Stalinist ideals she despised. No Saints or Angels is a powerful book in which, "like Anton Chekhov, Mr. Klíma is able to show us what's extraordinary about ordinary life" iThe Washington Times).
"Perhaps Klima's domestic terrain could have been limned by various so-called minimalists of American fiction, but where Raymond Carver or Ann Beattie... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post
Ivan Klíma is one of the world's most important writers and, in No Saints or Angels, he takes us into the heart of contemporary Prague, where the Communist People's Militia of the Stalinist era marches headlong into the drug culture of the present. Kristyna is the divorced mother of a rebellious fifteen-year-old daughter, Jana. She is beginning to love a man fifteen years her junior, but her joy is clouded by worry—^Jana has been cutting school, and perhaps using heroin. Meanwhile Kristyna's mother has forced on her a huge box of personal papers left by her dead father, a tyrant whose Stalinist ideals she despised. No Saints or Angels is a powerful book in which, "like Anton Chekhov, Mr. Klíma is able to show us what's extraordinary about ordinary life" iThe Washington Times).
"Perhaps Klima's domestic terrain could have been limned by various so-called minimalists of American fiction, but where Raymond Carver or Ann Beattie might have stopped at the bedroom or trailer door, the Czech master sees his characters' malaise as part of something larger. No Saints or Angels [has a] humane power." —Melvin Jules Bukiet, The Washington Post Book World
"A compassionate realist, [Klíma] unflinchingly presents the problems facing modern Prague and civilization in general."
—^Jennie Yabroff, San Francisco Chronicle
"Klíma teases the history and secrets out of four generations____[He] has created something stirring and valuable."—Jules Verdone, The Hartford Courant
Ivan Klíma is the award-winning author of many books, including Waiting for the Dark, Watting for the Light; The Ultimate Intimacy; and Lovers for a Day; as well as The Spirit of Prague and fudge on Trial. He lives in Prague. Vissza