{"product_id":"martin-367-s-letters-home-five-decades-of-correspondence-with-family-and-friends-9780907689775","title":"Martin\u0026#367;'s Letters Home: Five Decades of Correspondence with Family and Friends","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bohuslav Martinů | Isa Popelka | Isa Popelka\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Toccata Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Toccata Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Criticism - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese letters document Martinu's life in his own words, from his student days in Prague and Paris to his triumphs in American exile. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 121 letters collected in this book document Martinu's life in his own words, beginning as a student in Prague and Paris, following his flight from Nazi-occupied France and charting his triumphs in American exile; the last letter is dated shortly before his death in 1959. They are addressed to his family and friends back home in the village of Policka, on the Czech-Moravian border. Kept at a distance by the Nazi occupation and then by Communism, Martinuwas never to return there but, in a letter to the mayor, written as a gesture of solidarity after August 1938, he proudly described himself as a \"native son who is far from his home but who constantly returns - if only in his thoughts - with gladness - to that dear land - the most beautiful on earth.\"","brand":"Toccata Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47969619280023,"sku":"9780907689775","price":5762.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780907689775.webp?v=1782922860","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/martin-367-s-letters-home-five-decades-of-correspondence-with-family-and-friends-9780907689775","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}