Tightrope! -- A Bohemian Tale

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This book tells the story of your life, as a girl growing up in Czechoslovakia in the s. Perhaps we could start with a short extract.

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Your mother was an actress, your father a film and theatre director. So here is a very brief extract about your mother: In our Prague apartment, an old oak wardrobe hides a large cardboard box.

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Maminka sometimes — but seldom — opens the box and dives into its smell, as if it were a tunnel to a hidden paradise. There was a mystical divide somewhere in time; the ugly box is material evidence of this. Once Maminka was truly, but truly, beautiful. And gifted, of course.

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Now, in the time after that, eaten-away into regrettable rags of incomprehensible cinders, there is no reason any more to put this truth to the test. The story of my mother is in this novel. It was very complicated at this time. On the other side my mother was from a farming family.


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It was just a medium sized estate, less than a hundred hectares. They were hard-labouring farmers. But after the year , after the communist take-over, they became the enemies. And the farm takes a central role in your book. And all my life. This hidden history of farmers. It is a forgotten story, I believe. It is very clear from the book that you grew up with a very close relationship to the natural and to the agricultural world. Here is another extract, describing your enjoyment of the cherries at the farm.

The cherries are beautiful, and there are loads of them: I absorb the orgies of plenty, somewhere there above the ladder, picking them right from the branches with my mouth, splitting the stones all around, taking aim and randomly; the juice splashing and flowing down: I am wonderfully sticky and dirty. Just a little below me, a on a rung of the ladder, lurks a singing and reproachful futility. Because I should be doing something proper; something should be created by now.

My father has made his living by writing ever since he was thirteen, and I will be thirteen in a few days. My father knows this very well. Set up a giveaway. Feedback If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us. Would you like to report poor quality or formatting in this book?

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