Volume 42, Number 7 · April 20, 1995
Broken Blossoms
By Gabriele Annan
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light
by Ivan Klíma, translated by Paul Wilson
Grove, 234 pp., $21.00
The Loves of Faustyna
by Nina FitzPatrick
Penguin, 216 pp., $9.95 (paper)
A short time before the Velvet Revolution a peaceful demonstration marches through Prague with banners calling for LESS SMOKE, MORE AIR. The police are ready with their truncheons and water cannon; Pavel is standing ready with his television camera and the van with the State Television logo on it. 'The clash would be as absurd as all the others before it,' he thinks,
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