A Desert in Bohemia
2000
First Published
3.79
Average Rating
336
Number of Pages
Fifty years in a small Eastern European town are chronicled in this novel, which details the effects of Communism on the lives of ordinary people in the aftermath of World War II. By the acclaimed author of Knowledge of Angels and Thrones, Dominations. Reprint.
Avg Rating
3.79
Number of Ratings
263
5 STARS
21%
4 STARS
45%
3 STARS
28%
2 STARS
5%
1 STARS
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Author
Jill Paton Walsh
Author · 31 books
Jill Paton Walsh was born Gillian Bliss in London on April 29th, 1937. She was educated at St. Michael's Convent, North Finchley, and at St. Anne's College, Oxford. From 1959 to 1962 she taught English at Enfield Girls' Grammar School. Jill Paton Walsh has won the Book World Festival Award, 1970, for Fireweed; the Whitbread Prize, 1974 (for a Children's novel) for The Emperor's Winding Sheet; The Boston Globe-Horn Book Award 1976 for Unleaving; The Universe Prize, 1984 for A Parcel of Patterns; and the Smarties Grand Prix, 1984, for Gaffer Samson's Luck. Series: * Imogen Quy * Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane
