…but told with the verve and energy of a young man who wasn’t going to let the system get the better of him
“The story of a childhood and youth spent under the shadow of discrimination and oppression in Communist-era Czechoslovakia, but told with the verve and energy of a young man who wasn’t going to let the system get the better of him. A delightful read, this book draws you in to the trials and tribulations of adolescence, as well as its pleasures, not least those of rebelling against a crudely authoritarian regime that attempted to practise total surveillance of its subjects. The book is also a fascinating and well researched family history that begins in the 1920s and ends with the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968, which prompted the author to make a new life for himself in Britain.”
