In 2006, he opened the museum known as Gottland, just outside Prague. Jaroslava Moserova, an expert in skin grafting and a translator who adapted 44 Dick Francis mystery novels from English to Czech.Īnd also Karel Gott, the Slavic answer to Elvis. You’ll also meet other remarkable Czech citizens: Lida Baarova who was the mistress of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Gobbels. They started out in abject poverty, revolutionized the industry by studying Henry Ford’s assembly line, survived the Nazis (while being accused of being collaborators), lost their factories to the Communists, and finally, returned in triumph in 1989 - at the request of President Vaclav Havel, no less. Written in short one- to four-paragraph segments, it tells the made-for-a-movie story of a legendary Czech shoe-making family. The first essay is about the Bata family, and it sets the tone for the entire book. This compelling collection of essays about fascinating Czechs is the un-put-downable result. Polish investigative journalist Mariusz Szczygieł wanted to explore everything that the Czech Republic is and has been. Mariusz Szczygieł, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator) Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia
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