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The 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, Martinu was 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."

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• Full title: Martinu's Letters Home
• Subtitle: Five Decades of Correspondence with Family and Friends
• Author: Bohuslav Martinů
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780907689775
• ISBN: 0907689779
• ID: 01337608
• Publisher: Toccata Press
• Weight: 696 g
• Dimensions: 162 × 232 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. March 2013

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