description: In this raucous account of a year¹s stay in his homeland, Czech-American writer Jan Novak offers an intimate portrait of a society going through a manic phase after the fall of Communism. The author and his wife and two children live high and low amidst Prague¹s ancient glory and modern confusion, and Novak moves through Eastern Europe with a native¹s ease and a westerner¹s eye. Novak¹s vivid picture of daily life in the Czech Republic and of the tragic war unfolding next door in the former Yugoslavia is at once highly personal, comic, painful, and memorable. Commies, Crooks, Gypsies, Spooks &amp; Poets is part how-to manual with advice on everyday life in a post-communist country
language: English
title: Commies, Crooks, Gypsies, Spooks & Poets
titlecomplete: Commies, Crooks, Gypsies, Spooks & Poets
genres: Czech Literature, History
ratings_count: 30
publisher: Steerforth Pr