My Crazy Century

An intimate, politically vital memoir by the acclaimed Czech author “ of enormous power and originality” explores his life under Nazi and Communist regimes ( The New York Times Book Review ).   In the 1930s on the outskirts of Prague, Ivan Klíma was unaware of his concealed Jewish heritage until the invading Nazis transported him and his family to the Terezín concentration camp. Miraculously, most of them survived. But they returned home to a city that was falling into the grip of another t