![]() ![]() They can visit each other by flying across oceans, but every time they cross between worlds they run the gauntlet of Soviet bureaucracy. Babi remained, and after the war Czechoslovakia was separated from the West by the Iron Curtain. Little Fox’s grandma Máňa and her husband Bill (formerly Vilém) fled Czechoslovakia around the time of the Munich Pact, which saw Nazi Germany annexe part of the country. We find out that Luděk’s Babi and Little Fox’s grandmothers are sisters. Despite unreliable supplies in the grocery stores (Prague has run out of toilet paper!), and restrictions on expression and movement, Luděk enjoys a life of running around the city streets, so fast he believes he is invisible. In the other world, Prague under Soviet rule, there is Luděk, a young boy who lives with his Babi, his grandmother. In one world, we meet a girl, nicknamed Little Fox, who lives with her Czech grandparents in Melbourne, where her grandpa is a nightwatchman in a factory. Set largely in 1980, it is the story of a Czech family, separated by space and time and politics. ![]() There Was Still Love is a sweet story about parallel worlds, but it is not science fiction or fantasy. ![]()
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