Title: The bride of Texas : a romantic tale from the real world /
Authors: Škvorecký, Josef, 1924-2012; Poláčková-Henley, Káča
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Canada,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Immigrants United States Fiction; Czechs United States Fiction.; United States History Fiction.
Abstract: The Bride of Texas evokes a crowded mid-nineteenth-century panorama as it tells the story of a group of emigres who flee the oppression of the Hapsburg Empire and, in their pursuit of freedom and a better life, find themselves immersed in the chaos of an American war of emancipation. The kaleidoscopic drama is shaped by two parallel romances: Lida, the bride of the title, is a strong-willed young Czech woman who marries a plantation owner's son; her soldier brother, Cyril, falls in love with a young slave woman. And with them we are swept into a world at once unsentimental and romantic, in which love, challenged by racial and cultural boundaries, refuses to be easily snuffed out.