The silent woman
Zgustová, Monika2013
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Sylva, half Czech and half German, is born into an aristocratic family and lives in a castle outside Prague. She marries a man she doesn't love and is seduced by the joyful madness of Paris in the 1920s as an ambassador's wife. When the Nazis force her to state her loyalty, she capitulates, not realizing how this decision will inform and haunt the rest of her life. Sylva's story is interwoven with a contemporary sex chronicle of her son Jan, a world-renowned mathematician and émigré living in the United States, who exudes the restlessness of a man without a country.
Main title:
The silent woman / by Monika Zgustová ; translated by Matthew Tree.
Author:
Zgustová, Monika, authorTree, Matthew, 1958-, translator
Imprint:
New York : Feminist, 2013.
Collation:
320 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Czech.
ISBN:
9781558618411 (pbk)1558618414
Dewey class:
891.8'636
Local class:
FT PBK
Language:
EnglishCzech
BRN:
694805