
A Season in the West
A Czechoslovakian writer and dissident defects to England and has to come to terms with a new way of life.
- Publisher
- Pan Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780708926321
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Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial PrizeWonMajor(1988)
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