The bride of Texas
Subtitle: a romantic tale from the real world
By: Josef Skvorecky ; translated by Kaca Polackova Henley.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 609
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
Work titles: Nevěsta z Texasu.
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.