“This book is about the need to live life freely, and it should be read by all those who got freedom for nothing,” said Vaclav Havel, a dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of an independent Czech Republic.
“This book is about the need to live life freely, and it should be read by all those who got freedom for nothing,” said Vaclav Havel, a dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of an independent Czech Republic. It is for today’s children and teenagers, who know almost nothing about the Cold War and the Iron Curtain, that the Czech-American artist and cartoonist Petr Sis drew his autobiography. At the same time, it is a portrait of an entire era. A story about a generation whose youth fell on the Prague Spring… and was crushed by Soviet tanks in August 1968. “The wall that separated Berlin and Europe for many years has remained in my memories. But some memories need to be kept. Like evidence of the past. As a warning for the future,” the artist is convinced. This book should be read together — in order to explain to children the incomprehensible, to tell, to clarify the details. “Although one wall has collapsed, new ones appear in the world,” reminds Piotr Sis. – Walls of fear, lack of freedom and mistrust. Walls without which life could be freer and happier … »
Scooter, 56 p.