A Desert in Bohemia

by JillPatonWalsh (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.25

  1945, somewhere in Central Europe, a young women takes refuge in an abandoned castle. Soon she is joined by others, including the Count, the castle's ancestral owner. He joins the flood of refugees, but behind him he leaves a legacy that will entangle those involved for the next 40 years.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $4.20

  A Desert in Bohemia is the story of the 40 years between the arrival of Communist troops in Czechoslovakia and the fall of Communism at the end of the 1980s, as seen through the eyes of eight characters who liveed through and observed these 40 years.