Judge on Trial

Ivan Klima

ISBN 10: 0679737561 / ISBN 13: 9780679737568

Published by Vintage, USA, 1994

About this Item

Judge on Trial, Ivan Klima. Published by Vintage, USA, 1994. First Vintage Edition. Signed and dated 22.3.95 by Ivan Kilma on title page. Softcover. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 560 pages. Light wear to covers and pages have light toning; otherwise in fine condition without marks, tears etc. Judge on Trial ¿is an inquest into the compromises that turned even the best citizens of Czechoslovakia into accomplices of its late totalitarian regime. "Enormously powerful."--New York Times Book Review. First published underground in Czechoslovakia in 1978, this semi-autobiographical novel was reworked by Klima n 1986 to include significant incidents from his own past. These key additions--brutally honest, emotional, reflective--have turned a political novel into a major opus. Like the author, the narrator is a Nazi concentration camp survivor and an intellectual who rethought his initial support of socialism after the show trials of the '50s and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Judge on Trial
• Publisher: Vintage, USA
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679737561
• ISBN 13: 9780679737568
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • FICTION/LITERATURE

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Synopsis

Part thriller, part domestic tragedy, at once political and intensely personal, Ivan Kilma's epicly scaled new novel is an inquest into the compromises that turned even the best citizens of Czechoslovakia into accomplices of its late totalitarian regime. "Enormously powerful".--New York Times Book Review.

About the Author

Ivan Klima was born in 1931 in Prague. He was the editor of the journal of the Czech Writer's Union during the Prague Spring.