The bride of Texas
By: Josef Škvorecký ; translated by Káča Poláčková Henley.
Contributors: Poláčková-Henley, Káča.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
Subjects: Immigrants -- Fiction.; Czech Americans -- Fiction.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-436).