Commies, Crooks, Gypsies, Spooks, and Poets: Thirteen Books of Prague in the Year of the Great Lice Epidemic

In this book, which won the Carl Sandburg Award for Non-fiction, novelist Jan Novak journeys from Chicago to his Czech homeland following the Velvet Revolution to pass on to his American-born children a sense of their ethnic heritage. "This raucous account of their year-long stay is the equivalent of a pub conversation with an affable stranger that becomes an all-night marathon of bear-fueled wisdom" (Washington Post).Novak, Jan is the author of 'Commies, Crooks, Gypsies, Spooks, and Poets: Thirteen Books of Prague in the Year of the Great Lice Epidemic' with ISBN 9781883642099 and ISBN 1883642094.