The Liberating Beauty of Little Things
Decision, Adversity & Reckoning in a Refugee’s Journey from Prague to Cambridge
Bohuslava R. Bradbrook was born in Czechoslovakia and educated at the universities of Prague, Innsbruck and Oxford. She lives now in Cambridge, and is the author of Karel Capek: In Pursuit of Truth, Tolerance and Trust, as well as numerous articles and reviews on Czech literature in scholarly journals, symposia and the Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century.
This book is the story of an academic’s escape from Czechoslovakia
to England at the height of the Cold War. It is a poignant and timely
reminder of the hardships and life without basic freedoms endured
under Communism. It is also a documentary of the politics, sociology
and history of those turbulent years in Europe as they influenced
and restrained the life of academics under the yoke of Communism.
Ten years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, a younger
generation is already beginning to forget what made it imperative
for so many individuals to leave their homes in Central Europe,
in order to gain freedom and to demonstrate to the communist authorities,
the families and friends they left behind and their new hosts, just
how important their escape to Liberty was.
| Paperback ISBN: | 978-1-898595-34-2 |
| Paperback Price: | £12.95 / $22.95 |
| Release Date: | August 2000 |
| Page Extent / Format: | 112 pp. / 229 x 152 mm |
| Illustrated: | No |
Decision
Chapter I Prague 1952 – driven into a narrow
corner – looking back to war years – the liberation 1945 – the
fatal February 1948 and its consequences
Adversity
Chapter II "Over the hills" to Austria – Vienna
– first impressions and shocks – screening in the British zone
of Vienna
Chapter III Through the Russian zone to the
British – quarantine camp – the ghost of a Labour Office – anxiety
and relief
Chapter IV From the British zone to the American
– screening – life in a DP camp
Chapter V To Innsbruck (French zone) – efforts
to secure some existence – frustrated attempts to move on –
hope for settling in Eire
Chapter VI Vacation grant in Cambridge, but
uncertainty about the post in Eire
Chapter VII Eire
Reckoning
Chapter VIII Happy marriage, but communist
régime still imposes its power.
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