A DESERT IN BOHEMIA.
by Walsh, Jill Paton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (light toning, crinkling to dj flaps)./near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385601212
- ISBN 13
- 9780385601214
- Seller
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About This Item
London:: Doubleday,, (2000). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (light toning, crinkling to dj flaps).. First printing. Award-winning author's fifth adult novel - "serious, important and philosophically provocative - and infused with narrative urgency, suspense, pathos and passion as well. . . Set in Comenia, a fictional Czech- and German-speaking Eastern European country, the book chronicles the swift and brutal progress of communism in the years following WWII. Walsh follows nine characters over four decades, from 1945-1990, as their lives - already shattered by harrowing wartime experiences and now dislocated by political tyranny - intersect." (PW review) 333 pp.
Synopsis
Jill Paton Walsh is the author of four highly praised adult novels: Lapsing , A School for Lovers , Knowledge of Angels and The Serpentine Cave .
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76838
- Title
- A DESERT IN BOHEMIA.
- Author
- Walsh, Jill Paton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (light toning, crinkling to dj flaps).
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385601212
- ISBN 13
- 9780385601214
- Publisher
- Doubleday,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- (2000)
- Keywords
- historical fiction, communist countries,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern first editions;
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