How I Came to Know Fish

Name: How I Came to Know Fish
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780241752289
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By Ota Pavel

Series: Penguin Archive

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Of all the sleep a man can have, the fisherman's sleep is the sweetest. It is the greatest of luxuries - sleep and fishing. Through tender, vivid, and often humorous recollections - from magical fishing trips to... Read More

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

Of all the sleep a man can have, the fisherman's sleep is the sweetest. It is the greatest of luxuries - sleep and fishing.

Through tender, vivid, and often humorous recollections - from magical fishing trips to the rivers and ponds of Bustehrad to his charismatic father's eccentric business ventures - this bittersweet memoir tells the story of a childhood in Czechoslovakia, against the backdrop of World War II.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241752289

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 April 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult, Primary and secondary education, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 109.0mm

Height: 180.0mm

Weight: 91g

Pages: 144

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Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Ota Pavel Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Penguin Archive

About the Author

Ota Pavel (1930-1973) worked for much of his short life as a journalist and sports reporter. Despite serious bouts of mental illness he wrote brilliant, lyrical accounts, some collected in How I Came to Know Fish, of his childhood and his family in a Czechoslovakia under overwhelming threat from Nazism.