The bride of Texas
a romantic tale from the real world
by Josef Škvorecký
The Bride of Texas evokes a crowded mid-nineteenth-century panorama as it tells the story of a group of emigres who flee the oppression of the Hapsburg Empire and, in their pursuit of freedom and a better life, find themselves immersed in the chaos of an American war of emancipation. The kaleidoscopic drama is shaped by two parallel romances: Lida, the bride of the title, is a strong-willed young Czech woman who marries a plantation owner's son; her soldier brother, Cyril, falls in love with a young slave woman. And with them we are swept into a world at once unsentimental and romantic, in which love, challenged by racial and cultural boundaries, refuses to be easily snuffed out.
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The bride of Texas: a romantic tale from the real world
1996, Vintage Canada
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The bride of Texas: a romantic tale from the real world
1995, Alfred A. Knopf Canada
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Translation of: Neve︣sta z Texasu.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [607]-609)
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