Title: The bride of Texas
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.
Subjects: Czech Americans, Fiction, History, Immigrants, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Fiction, historical, general, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction, Czechs
Places: United States
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865