Klima, Ivan
by Waiting For the Dark, Waiting For the Light
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0802115748
- ISBN 13
- 9780802115744
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About This Item
New York. 1995. April 1995. Grove Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjackete. 0802115748. 235 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Bjorn Keller. keywords: Literature Eastern Europe Czech Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Ivan Klima was in the United States when Russian tanks entered Prague in 1968 but, against the advice of friends, he returned home. He became a dissident, writing books (never published) that were invariably inspired by Czechoslovakia's repressive regime. But what happens to a rebel artist when there is nothing left to rebel against? This question informs Klima's powerful novel, WAITING FOR THE DARK, WAITING FOR THE LIGHT, which describes life before, during, and after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. It is the story of Pavel, a middle-aged television cameraman working uneasily within the boundaries set by the regime, who dreams of one day making a film - a searing portrait of his times - that the authorities will never allow. But after the collapse of communism, Pavel finds he is unprepared for this new world of unlimited freedoms. He never quite gets around to making that film; his time is taken up instead with lucrative small jobs - a TV spot, a commercial, a porn film. This is a masterful novel that focuses on the most pressing issue confronting the individual in the former Soviet bloc countries today: how to live one's life when one is truly free. inventory #35696 ISBN: 0802115748.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35696
- Title
- Klima, Ivan
- Author
- Waiting For the Dark, Waiting For the Light
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0802115748
- ISBN 13
- 9780802115744
- Publisher
- Grove Pr
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1995
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