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This slim text, a sequel to the memorable The House on Prague Street , an autobiographical novel of a young girl's experiences in wartime Czechoslovakia, continues to tell of Helene's life. Again related in clear, restrained, understated prose, this is a more mainstream story of a marriage gone bad and a woman's attempt to find a meaningful existence. Helene, orphaned by the Holocaust and conditioned to be stoic, meets Paul in postwar Prague and agrees to marry him despite his philandering. His overt affairs continue throughout a 30-year marriage marked by Helene's passive subjugation to his icy ego and hot temper. Details of their life in war-devastated Eastern Europe and in 1950s America endow the text with evocative power. While Paul builds an academic career at Harvard, Helene lives quietly as a faculty wife, teacher and writer. Paul's decision to leave Helene and their two daughters again tests her skills as a survivor; her life eventually comes full circle in a strange and satisfying way. In choosing to relate the novel with constant changes in points of view, time and setting, Demetz robs her narrative of some coherence. But such is the innate interest of the events she desc

Author

Demetz, Hanna

Publisher

New York: St. Martin's Press

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312038526

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities