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A Desert in Bohemia

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Knowledge of Angels, a brilliant new novel.

It is 1945. The German army retreats and sweeps back over Eastern Europe, leaving its inhabitants in turmoil. A terrified and bloodstained young woman, Eliska, takes refuge in Libohrad, a deserted castle. She is joined by the idealistic Jiri, the unnerving Slavomir and his partisans. Then the castle's owner, Count Michael Blansky reappears to disturb the precarious equilibrium. With political change comes an ideological change. The aristocratic heritage of ten generations is brushed aside by the arrival of Communist troops, and Count Michael has to leave behind not only his heritage but a legacy which will entangle those involved for forty years and beyond.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 336
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780452282681
  • Genres
  • fiction, contemporary, historical
  • Release date
  • 2001