Publisher's Synopsis
A Slovak Tale is a book of historical fiction. The novel's format is that of letters and reports exchanged between the principal characters, three best childhood friends and their wives over a sixty year period between the thirties and eighties of the 20th Century with an epilogue in 2007. Six key events are described by two different observers from an entirely different vantage point. It is a mixture of historical facts and fiction with clear demarcation of the two. The story's primary location is Slovakia, the second half taking place in the United States after one protagonist's post-WWII emigration. The author was born in Slovak town of Topo any two weeks after Czechoslovakia was split into a German "protectorate" of Bohemia and Moravia and Slovak State. A Holocaust survivor, he graduated from medical school and after countries of Warsaw Pact's invasion of Czechoslovakia, he emigrated to USA, where he practiced neurology in Wisconsin. Besides his profession, he was an amateur coach of basketball in Bratislava and Michalovce. His worldview is that of secular humanism.
