Fires in the Dark

by Louise Doughty (Author)

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  2004

  $3.31

  It is 1927. In rural Bohemia a son is born to Josef, leader of a company of Coppersmith Gypsies, and his wife Anna. For the benefit of his people he is named Emil, but his real name, known only to his mother, is Yenko. Yenko is the prince of his tribe, treasured and protected from the hardships imposed on his people. But his childhood world is soon overwhelmed by the Great Depression of the 1930s, the rise of Nazism and the calamity of the Second World War. Interned in a camp, Yenko faces the hardest decision of his life, to escape alone or stay and risk perishing with his family.

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.31

  It is 1927. Yenko is born in a barn in rural Bohemia to a tribe of Coppersmith Gypsies. Traditional people who survive by plying their skills as they travel throughout Central Europe, they live through the Depression and the rise of Nazism. But the greatest danger comes from the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the German army. Yenko escapes the clutches of the invaders but is forced to adopt many guises in order to survive and rescue his family and his love. If he succeeds he can truly become a Romany man - but in the end who is he? From the rural Gypsy traditions of the inter-war era, through the Nazi invasion, culminating in the drama of the Prague Uprising of May 1945, Louise Doughty has created a breathtaking novel of grand scope.