{"product_id":"prague-spring-paperback","title":"Prague Spring - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSimon Mawer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Room\u003c\/i\u003e Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story that mixes sex, politics, and betrayal.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the summer of 1968--a year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter--Oxford students James Borthwick and Eleanor Pike set out to hitchhike across Europe, complicating a budding friendship that could be something more. Having reached southern Germany, they decide on a whim to visit Czechoslovakia, where Alexander Dubček's \"socialism with a human face\" is smiling on the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeanwhile, Sam Wareham, First Secretary at the British embassy in Prague, is observing developments in the country with both a diplomat's cynicism and a young man's passion. In the company of Czech student Lenka Konečková, he finds a way into the world of Czechoslovak youth, its hopes and its ideas. For the first time, nothing seems off limits behind the Iron Curtain. Yet the wheels of politics are grinding in the background. The Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev is making demands of Dubček, and the Red Army is amassed on the borders. How will the looming disaster affect those fragile lives caught up in the invasion? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith this shrewd, engrossing, and sensual novel, Simon Mawer cements his status as one of the most talented writers of historical spy fiction today.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Mawer \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1948 in England. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eChimera\u003c\/i\u003e, won the McKitterick Prize for first novels in 1989. \u003ci\u003eMendel's Dwarf\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), his first book to be published in the U.S., was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook to Remember for 1998. \u003ci\u003eThe Gospel of Judas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 2003 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature), and \u003ci\u003eSwimming to Ithaca\u003c\/i\u003e followed, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Room\u003c\/i\u003e, his tenth book and eighth novel, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize. \u003ci\u003eTrapeze\u003c\/i\u003e (Other Press) was published in 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 13, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247089697017,"sku":"9781590519660","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/QnhxKzlJUUxIS3YycjZxYzRLeno2dz09.webp?v=1768620884","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/prague-spring-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}