{"product_id":"9780312421731","title":"When Eve Was Naked : Stories of a Life's Journey","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWhen Eve Was Naked\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Josef Skvorecký\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis autobiography in stories,\u003ci\u003e When Eve Was Naked\u003c\/i\u003e, takes us through a most remarkable life, from the innocence of prewar Prague through the horrors of the Nazi occupation and World War II. In the title story, narrated by Skvorecky's alter-ego Danny Smiricky, seven-year-old Danny falls in love for the first time; at sixteen he hides in a railway station and watches as his Jewish teacher is herded onto a train and taken away; and in 1968, as Russian tanks rolled into Prague, Skvorecky flees Czechoslovakia, taking Danny with him. In the collection's final stories, Danny begins his tenure as Professor Smiricky at a Canadian university and attempts to come to terms with the politically innocent and self-centered youth that flock to his courses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Pick up Josef Skvorecky's \u003ci\u003eWhen Eve Was Naked\u003c\/i\u003e and, I promise, you will be enriched, enlightened, entertained and more...I can't say enough about the delights of this volume. It's wise, it's witty, it's poignant, it's wry.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The stories read to some extent like a diary, capturing an emotional landscape in lucid detail...A delight only  Skvorecky could write.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The twenty-four stories in this collection are bubbles in time, verbal dioramas depicting a benign quality (innocence, comfort or just amiable confusion) destined for extinction. Refreshingly, Skvorecky...handles the heaviness of his material with a feather touch.” —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780312421731\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40675761979598,"sku":"9780312421731","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_6d488ad9-c8be-4b39-ae7a-3c24e5ac7716.jpg?v=1639971811","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780312421731","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}