Two mis-matched Oxford students hitchhike their way into Prague where their lives cross with an English diplomat and his lover, Lenka. But this is 1968, Russian forces are gathering to suppress Dubček's soft socialism. Atmospheric, with vivid descriptions but with characters so stereotypical that they fail to engage - though they're forever engaging physically. I expected so much more from the author of that other novel set in Czechoslovakia - The Glass Room (bwl 55 & 63).
(Jenny Baker - bwl 91 Winter 2019 ) |
