Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street

Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street
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Publisher : Soho Press
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 9781616954970
ISBN-13 : 1616954973
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street by : Heda Margolius Kovály

Download or read book Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street written by Heda Margolius Kovály and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rediscovered masterpiece captures a chilling moment in the stifling early days of Communist Czechoslovakia. 1950s Prague is a city of numerous daily terrors, of political tyranny, corruption and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one’s neighbor is spying for the government, or what one’s supposed friend will say to a State Security agent under pressure. A loyal Party member might be imprisoned or executed as quickly as a traitor; innocence means nothing for a person caught in a government trap. When a little boy is murdered at the cinema, the ensuing investigation sheds a little too much light on the personal lives of the cinema’s female ushers, each of whom is hiding a dark secret of her own.


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