Starting out as a struggling, aspiring writer, Jan Vitek would go
on to play a secret role in undermining the Czech communist party
from within, a mission that would result in the kidnap of his wife
and child and his own exile in Switzerland. He has battled
political regimes and devastating illness with the same refined
humility during a life marked equally by triumph and tragedy. Born
in South Bohemia and coming of age during the Second World War,
Vitek witnessed the liberation of the Czechoslovakia in 1945, the
subsequent Communist takeover and the unbridled Capitalist
transformation that many of the ex-communist states experienced
following the revolutions of the late 1980s. His own life has been
played out against a dramatic backdrop of a Europe in flux and his
accounts of both his own experiences and this sweeping social
change is illuminating. A Pebble in the Torrent is Jan Vitek's
captivating and dramatic story of a man who said no to oppression
and injustice.
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