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Simon Mawer: Prague Spring

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: November 23, 2018, 18:00 – 20:00

Simon Mawer, author of the New York Times bestseller The Glass Room, returns to Czechoslovakia with his novel Prague Spring set in the turbulent 1960s. The Prague Spring and the Cold War, Dubček’s “socialism with a human face”, Czechoslovak youth brimming with hope and new ideas. Behind the Iron Curtain nothing seems impossible in this moment. However, the massive cogs of politics are turning in the background, the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev is putting the pressure on and the Red Army is assembling on the borders…

The author will take part in the presentation of the book and Petr Vizina will moderate.

The reading and discussion will take place in English with interpretation into Czech provided.

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