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The Odyssey and Dr. Novak - A Memoir (Paperback)
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The Odyssey and Dr. Novak - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Loot Price R441
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One summer afternoon in northern England in 1946, when Ann Colley
was a child, she met a man from Czechoslovakia named Dr. Novak.
This encounter launched her lifelong fascination with Central and
Eastern Europe, one that resulted in her spending two years, in
1995 and 2000, teaching at universities in Poland and Ukraine. In
The Odyssey and Dr. Novak, Colley records personal experiences,
interactions with colleagues, and descriptions of the landscape,
creating a composite portrait of these countries at a time when
each is struggling to chart its course after the collapse of the
Soviet Union in 1991. She recalls moments that are disturbing,
absurd, discordant, frustrating, humorous, and endearing—a
missing parrot flying in through the window; a robber on a train
threatening her life; clouds of smoke from Chernobyl hanging over
Kiev. Colley’s journey ends with her return to the figure of Dr.
Novak when she searches in the archives of the Harvard Divinity
School Library for letters sent from Prague in 1945—letters
which, just like her memoir, speak of a past that pursues the
present.
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