Under a Cruel Star

Under a Cruel Star

A Life in Prague, 1941-1968

by Heda Kovály, Heda Margolius Kovály, Helen Epstein

192 pages· ISBN 9780841913776
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Heda Margolius Kovály's steady gaze at the lives caught up in Czechoslovakia's tragic fate under the Nazis and then during the Stalin era illuminates the chaotic life of a nation. Kovály was deported to concentration camps, escaped from a death march, nearly starved in the post-war years, only to be shattered by her husband's conviction (in the infamous 1952 Slansky trial) and his execution. Resonant with lyricism, this gripping memoir is uplifting even in the midst of horror.

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