Innocence; Or, Murder on Steep Street

By Heda Margolius Kovály

Book Overview

1950s Prague is a city of numerous small 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. But there are larger terrors, too. When a little boy is murdered at the cinema where his aunt works, 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. Nearly lost to censorship, this rediscovered gem of Czech literature depicts a chilling moment in history, redolent with the stifling atmosphere of political and personal oppression of the early days of Communist Czechoslovakia. Story Locale- Prague, Czechoslovakia

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616956453
• ISBN13: 9781616956455
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Soho Crime
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 7.4"