Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light

Klappentext A New York Times Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year! Waiting for the Dark! Waiting for the Light is the story of Pavel! once a promising! award-winning documentary filmmaker! forced to survive under communism by working as a cameraman for the state-run television station. Now middle-aged! he dreams of one day making a film -- a searing portrait of his times that the authorities would never allow. When the communist regime collapses! Pavel is unprepared for the new world of supposedly unlimited freedom! unable to make the film he has always wanted to make. Waiting for the Dark! Waiting for the Light is a powerful! important novel about the struggle between the ideal and the temptations of freedom. Zusammenfassung A New York Times Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year! Waiting for the Dark! Waiting for the Light is the story of Pavel! once a promising! award-winning documentary filmmaker! forced to survive under communism by working as a cameraman for the state-run television station. Now middle-aged! he dreams of one day making a film ? a searing portrait of his times that the authorities would never allow. When the communist regime collapses! Pavel is unprepared for the new world of supposedly unlimited freedom! unable to make the film he has always wanted to make. Waiting for the Dark! Waiting for the Light is a powerful! important novel about the struggle between the ideal and the temptations of freedom.

Product details

• Authors: Ivan Klíma, Ivan Kl�ma, Ivan Klima, Ivan Klíma
• Assisted by: Paul Wilson (Translation), Paul Wilson (Translation)
• Publisher: Atlantic monthly press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.02.2006
• EAN: 9780802142436
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-4243-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europa, Fiction in translation, DRAMA / European / General, Plays / Drama, Czech Republic, c 1960 to c 1969, CULTURAL HERITAGE / Multicultural, Relating to middle adulthood, Czechoslovakia