Bringing Up Girls In Bohemia
Viewegh's clever, satirical novel is the story of the trials, tribulations, adventures, and loves of Beata Kralova, as told through the adoring eyes of her much older tutor. Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, this frank, fast-moving yarn details Beata's search for love and acceptance as she goes through one lover after another and takes up and discards causes (religion, environment, feminism, and animal rights) just as casually. In this brilliant snapshot of modern-day Prague, with all its new freedoms, Viewegh describes the "new millionaires" of Czech society, the Prague mafiosi, and the omnipresent expatriate Americans, to name just a few of his memorable types of characters.Kathleen Hughes--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.