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List Price: $18.00Amazon.com's Price: $12.24 You Save: $5.76 (32%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 943.704092
EAN: 9780374347017
ISBN: 0374347018
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 56
Publication Date: August 21, 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Sales Rank: 15683
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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Product Description:
“I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side—the Communist side—of the Iron Curtain.” Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sís shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news from the West slowly filtered into the country. Sís learned about beat poetry, rock ’n’ roll, blue jeans, and Coca-Cola. He let his hair grow long, secretly read banned books, and joined a rock band. Then came the Prague Spring of 1968, and for a teenager who wanted to see the world and meet the Beatles, this was a magical time. It was short-lived, however, brought to a sudden and brutal end by the Soviet-led invasion. But this brief flowering had provided a glimpse of new possibilities—creativity could be discouraged but not easily killed.
By joining memory and history, Sís takes us on his extraordinary journey: from infant with paintbrush in hand to young man borne aloft by the wings of his art.
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The book tells partially my history too. The pictures are worth thousand words, yet, the beautiful drawings together with the short descriptive
sentences make understanding of the history easy.
Thank you, Peter Sis for the work. In my opinion all Czech families should have this book at home for their children to make them understand why we left our beautiful country, the culture, the parents and friends.
We left after a Czech student Jan Palach set himself on fire in a protest against ... Read More
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I remember when I was in High School PBS did a series of presentations from inside Russia. Suddenly there were humans on the other side of the curtain of the Cold War. I remember reading an art book shortly after that about artists who hid out in basements and attics. "The Wall" is a many years removed view of life on the other side of the wall during that time period. What I appreciated most was that I could share this with my 13 yr old son who really has no idea of what the Cold War meant to either ... Read More
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We in the West often cannot believe,or rufuse to believe what it must have been like to live behind 'The Iron Curtain'.Surely we are told,those tales of repression are merely 'Mc Carthyite propaganda' and 'cold war nonsense'.For some strange reason the idea of a socio political system that murdered more than one hundred million of it's own people while enslaving over a billion more is just too much to face.Leave it to a 'mere childrens book' to show us a slice of life behind the iron curtain.Peter Sis's book ... Read More
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I am a great fan of Peter Sis and collect all his books, this was my last acquisition. Being the same age and growing up in the same place, I can relate to everything he has to tell, and on top of it, between the lines my own thoughts and memories always resurface and add more dimensions to his story. My favorite of his books is the Tibet through the red box. There is an adventure, suspense, politics, the mysterious Tibet, and everything told so beautifully and illustrated with incredibly sweet detail!
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i read a handful of books over the holidays. this one hardly counts, since it took about a half hour to read. but i really enjoyed it. it's the illustrated autobiography of the author, who grew up in the prague, behind the iron curtain. he was an artist and musician, and the story tells what it was like to be a struggling artist in a repressed, controlled, communist state.
i loved his drawing style, which is comic-book-y, but with tons of detail. and the addition of selections from his journals adds ... Read More
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