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This rediscovered masterpiece captures a chilling moment in the stifling early days of Communist Czechoslovakia. 1950s Prague is a city of numerous daily terrors, of political tyranny, corruption and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one s neighbor is spying for the government, or what one s supposed friend will say under pressure to a State Security agent. A loyal Party member might be imprisoned or executed as quickly as a traitor; innocence means nothing for a person caught in a government trap. When a little boy is murdered at the cinema, the ensuing investigation sheds a little too much light on the personal lives of the cinema s female ushers, each of whom is hiding a dark secret of her own. From the Hardcover edition.
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Innocence - Or, Murder on Steep Street - paperback, Heda Margolius Kovály
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- Title
- Innocence - Or, Murder on Steep Street - paperback
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Heda Margolius Kovály
- Publisher
- Soho Press Inc
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 236
- ISBN10
- 1616956453
- ISBN13
- 9781616956455
- Series
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- This rediscovered masterpiece captures a chilling moment in the stifling early days of Communist Czechoslovakia. 1950s Prague is a city of numerous daily terrors, of political tyranny, corruption and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one s neighbor is spying for the government, or what one s supposed friend will say under pressure to a State Security agent. A loyal Party member might be imprisoned or executed as quickly as a traitor; innocence means nothing for a person caught in a government trap. When a little boy is murdered at the cinema, the ensuing investigation sheds a little too much light on the personal lives of the cinema s female ushers, each of whom is hiding a dark secret of her own. From the Hardcover edition.