Bringing up Girls in Bohemia - Michal Viewegh This is a book that anyone fond of good writing skills will love. Set within the cultural and political Czech Republic of the 1990's, the story begins with an offer from a businessman and corrupt politician to a local teacher. The politician's spoilt elder twenty year old daughter is hopelessly depressed, and the teacher is supposed to give her creative writing lessons (or actually anything that will make this rich selfcentered girl start talking with her parents again). Viewegh is a phenomenal story teller, always surprising you with new ironic retrospectives on events and people which often grow into a grotesque saga. This book will appeal to readers from Middle and Eastern European countries or any other country in transition. This book is a quick read, but one that can't be let go so easily. The reader will find herself thumbing back to favorite and amusing segments of the (in the major part) actually true story. z kategorie Knihy | Beletrie | Česká a slovenská beletrie od Readers International naleznete ne e-shopu KnihyDobrovsky.cz! Michal Viewegh's novel Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia is the story of the young Beata Kralova and her not-so-young tutor.Beata is a 20-year-old drop-out and daughter of Denis Kral (i.e., King), a Czech "new millionaire" of dubious connections. Beata embraces lover after lover as well as causes new to Eastern Europe: the environment, animal rights, feminism, consumerism, new-age religion.This picaresque romp gives a gritty but hilarious portrait of today's Prague, its mafiosi and their ex-secret police bodyguards, the expatriate Americans, and many an extraordinary Czech, from a cremation enthusiast to a hopelessly naive sex-education teacher.The novel is also a serious exploration of the role of the writer in post-communist Central Europe. The narrator, himself an author and teacher who is in love with Beata, must portray her suicide in terms that explain her nihilism without losing faith in his own positive craft of story-telling. His hard-won credo as artist is to be an entertainer in a world of newly felt cruelty and suffering.