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Norman Eisen Orden de los libros (cronológico)
Este autor profundiza en el choque entre liberalismo e iliberalismo entrelazando las vidas de quienes habitaron su residencia de Praga antes que él. Su narrativa une las historias del constructor de la casa, un ocupante nazi, un rescatador estadounidense de la posguerra y una embajadora estrella de cine de la Guerra Fría. En el corazón de su obra se encuentra el legado personal de su madre, una superviviente checa del Holocausto que lo envió de regreso a Praga. Su escritura a menudo explora temas de ética y comentario político.
The last palace : Europe's turbulent century in five lives and one legendary house
- 403 páginas
- 15 horas de lectura
When Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture. As he unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of some of the remarkable people who had called this palace home, he began to chronicle the upheavals that transformed the continent over the past century. He introduces us to optimistic Jewish financial baron, Otto Petschek, who built the palace after World War I; Rudolf Toussaint, the cultured, compromised German general who occupied the palace during World War II; Laurence Steinhardt, the first postwar US ambassador; and Shirley Temple Black, an eyewitness to the crushing of the 1968 Prague Spring who returned as US ambassador in 1989. -- adapted from jacket
