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Norman Eisen Poradie kníh (chronologicky)
Autor skúma stret liberalizmu a neliberalizmu prostredníctvom životných osudov obyvateľov svojej rezidenčnej paláca v Prahe. Jeho rozprávanie spája príbehy staviteľa, nacistického okupanta, povojnovej americkej záchrankyne i filmovej hviezdy-ambasádorky. Do stredu diania stavia osobnú odkaz svojej matky, českej preživšej holokaustu, ktorá ho poslala späť do Prahy. Jeho písanie sa často zaoberá otázkami etiky a politiky.
The last palace : Europe's turbulent century in five lives and one legendary house
- 403 stránok
- 15 hodin čítania
When Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture. As he unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of some of the remarkable people who had called this palace home, he began to chronicle the upheavals that transformed the continent over the past century. He introduces us to optimistic Jewish financial baron, Otto Petschek, who built the palace after World War I; Rudolf Toussaint, the cultured, compromised German general who occupied the palace during World War II; Laurence Steinhardt, the first postwar US ambassador; and Shirley Temple Black, an eyewitness to the crushing of the 1968 Prague Spring who returned as US ambassador in 1989. -- adapted from jacket
