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Famed Holocaust memoirist Heda Margoulis Kovaly (Under a Cruel Star) knits her own terrifying encounters in Soviet Prague into a robust, Raymond Chandler-esque work of literary suspense. Prague in the 1950s is a city of numerous small terrors, of political tyranny, corruption, and surveillance. There is absolutely no way of knowing whether one's neighbor is spying for the government or what one's supposed friend will say under great pressure to circumstances security agent. A faithful get together member might be imprisoned or carried out as quickly as a traitor; innocence means nothing at all for a person trapped in a administration trap. But there are bigger terrors, too. When a little boy is murdered at the cinema where his aunt works, the ensuing investigation sheds a little too much light on the personal lives of the cinema's feminine ushers, each of whom is concealing a dark technique of her own. Almost lost to censorship, this rediscovered jewel of Czech literature depicts a chilling second ever sold, redolent with the stifling atmosphere of political and personal oppression of the first days and nights of Communist Czechoslovakia.
