The Sophisticated Lady

By Lidmila Sovakova

Irene, growing up in Prague, thought she had it all, and could keep it. In love with and loved by four very different men she is in danger of loosing one after the other. Now her family is stripped from her. Can she maintain the facade of the happily married and blushing young bride? Or is she set on her path of self-destruction? This is the third volume of the Jazz Saga.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lidmila Sovakova
• Release date: Dec 1, 2009
• ISBN: 9781583452196

Lidmila Sovakova

I was born in Prague, where I lived until emigrating in 1970 to France, England and Germany, eventually settling in Paris in 1982. Multilingual, I received MAs in Russian, Czech and French at Charles University in Prague, a Diploma of English Language and Literature from the Cambridge University, England, and the Doctorat d'Etat in French Literature at the Sorbonne in France. After I moved to Paris I found my niche as a novelist. My first novel, LE NAUFRAGE D'UN POISSON DORE, written in French won the prestigious PRIX EUROPEEN DE LA LITTERATURE in 1984. Its English version, THE DROWNING OF A GOLDFISH was published in 1990 by PERMANENT PRESS - New York. It was acclaimed as "An accomplished new voice from Europe, a promising debut and a moving and understated tale of courage by a young survivor living in a society where just to endure is sufficient victory" (THE KIRKUS REVIEWS, 9/1/90). All my other print books were published by Domhan Books, New York.

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