by Ota Pavel · New Directions Publishing Corporation · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780811211659
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«How I Came to Know Fish» is the memoir by Ota Pavel, published by New Directions Publishing Corporation in paperback (150 pages, in English).
Ota Pavel recalls his childhood in Czechoslovakia: fishing with his father and his uncle Prosek, and the Nazi invasion, which sends his father and his two brothers to a concentration camp. Too young to work in the camps, Ota stays with his mother and steals carp to feed the family. Stories of memory, nature, and resistance.
Series Memories of childhood, volume 2. Selection of stories translated from the Czech by Jindřiška Badal and Robert McDowell; original title: «Jak jsem potkal ryby».
For readers of short stories and Czech literature interested in World War II, childhood, and life under Nazi occupation.
Ota Pavel was a Czech writer, journalist and sport reporter. He is primarily an author of autobiographical and biographical novels.
