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Fields of Light (Paperback)

By: Joseph Hurka (Author)


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"[A] generous, kind, and thoughtful memoir....FIELDS OF LIGHT...is both a traveler's poignant story and an intimate memoir about intense personal loss and private pain."

Publisher's note

Winner of Pushcart's 19th Annual Editors' Book Award, nominated by Andre Dubus. A son remembers his father--an unsung Czech anti-Communist resistance fighter--in this powerfully moving memoir. After the fall of Communism, Joseph Hurka traveled to Prague, where his father had fought in the Underground against the Czech-Stalinist government. As the son walks in his father's footsteps, he uncovers a hidden past: he learns of his father's brutal imprisonment, his fortunate release, and his fierce resistance work. This book is also a story of modern Prague and the Czech Republic after the Velvet Revolution. Hurka takes us with him into the heart of Prague, the "Old Town" quarter where Kafka lived, and the lesser-known streets where his father fought for democracy. Fields of Light is finally a loving tribute to a father, a meditation on the relationship between truth and resistance, a tale of personal sacrifice and endurance--and of history reborn after extraordinary totalitarian efforts to erase it. 16 b/w photographs.

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This memoirist's father joined the Communist Resistance in Czechloslavakia in the 1940s. When Hurka travels to Prague in 1991 to put together the story of his father's life, he meditates on the intersection of family and history, learning about the sacrifices his father made during a turbulent political era, and about the beauty of the city, just then emerging as a major tourism destination.



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