In 1950s Prague, the death of a young boy at a movie theater reveals a series of shocking truths about the women who work there, resulting in more death and destruction, in Innocence by Heda Margolius Kovaly.
As well as being a fascinatingly bleak mystery, the story of the novel--lost to Communist oppression for a long while--is equally interesting. Kovaly was inspired after translating the work of Raymond Chandler into Czech, and it shows. Innocence is a tough, unrelenting noir with a shockingly downbeat ending.
But it paints a portrait, in grays and blacks, of a world few of us have been made privy to, and thus is rewarding on many levels.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond, Indiana and read it quickly. Recommended.
As well as being a fascinatingly bleak mystery, the story of the novel--lost to Communist oppression for a long while--is equally interesting. Kovaly was inspired after translating the work of Raymond Chandler into Czech, and it shows. Innocence is a tough, unrelenting noir with a shockingly downbeat ending.
But it paints a portrait, in grays and blacks, of a world few of us have been made privy to, and thus is rewarding on many levels.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond, Indiana and read it quickly. Recommended.
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