Innocence
Or, Murder on Steep Street
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U Lužického semináře 10, Malá Strana
Book information
Soho Press Inc
USA
2016
Paperback
256
Standard
315291
978-1-61695-645-5
1-61695-645-3
Crime & mystery
Annotation
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 under pressure to a State Security agent. 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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