Full of wonderful warmth and humour
“This is a fascinating, immensely readable tale, of someone growing up in Czechoslovakia at the end of WWII. It is engaging and charming in its honesty. What is most fascinating is the relating of the author’s experiences alongside the detailed and accurately documented influences of politics, engineering and popular culture in Eastern Europe at that time. Full of wonderful warmth and humour, the wit which has helped the author survive the systems designed to crush his generation is revealed as he breaks free and makes his way to the West.”
