Ota Pavel,Robert McDowell,Jindriska Badal
Unassuming and unforgettable, the stories of ,How I Came to Know Fish, memorialize Ota Pavel's childhood in Czechoslovakiaâ€”his beloved family, the flash of fish in clear streams, and the annihilation of this world by the Nazis. His father (a wildly canny fisherman) first has his fish pond confiscated ("How can a Jew breed carp?") and then, with his two older sons, is sent to a concentration camp. Too young to work in the camps, Ota remains with his gentile mother. Fish save them from starving, as he takes to poaching carp reserved for the Wehrmacht. These stories, some of which originally appeared in a Czech version of ,Field and Stream,, are profoundly poignant and have long been treasured by the Czechoslovakians.
European Literature,Czech Literature,Fiction,Short Stories,Classics,War,Historical,Historical Fiction,War,World War II,Literature,Jewish,World War II,Holocaust,Historical
How I Came to Know Fish