Tři tváře anděla – Pehe Jiří (2016)

After two successful editions in English translation (United Kingdom 2014, USA 2015), the second edition of Jiří Pehe's colorful novel is being released again in Czech in a new format! The dramatic fates of three generations of one family with Czech, Jewish, and German roots intertwine in the novel 'Three Faces of an Angel' with key events of the 20th century. Three different personal stories, told in different languages and styles, reflect the three phases of history that human society has gone through over the last century. Josef, whose promising career as a solo violinist was interrupted by World War I, reflects on his life in a lengthy letter to his mother, who gave him up in childhood. He understood that his purpose was to accept happiness in the form that fate had prepared for him. Josef's daughter Hana comes of age during the occupation. Twenty years later, she tries to recall everything that caused her constant struggle for survival to break her. Since the effort to recognize any order in what happened to her is futile, she seeks an escape elsewhere. Her son Alex leaves for emigration in the middle of his studies, where a successful life as a respected political scientist awaits him. At the end of summer 2001, he begins to write a diary in New York, searching for answers to how he became someone,…