Education
She left Prague with her parents in the 1970s and studied at different American universities, including the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago.
( A rapturous novel of love, longing, and exile, The Sile...)
A rapturous novel of love, longing, and exile, The Silent Woman depicts a twentieth century woman's life against a backdrop of war and political turmoil. Sylva, half Czech and half German, is born into an aristocratic family and lives in a castle outside Prague. She marries a man she doesn't love and is seduced by the joyful madness of Paris in the 1920s as an ambassador's wife. When the Nazis force her to state her loyalty, she capitulates, not realizing how this decision will inform and haunt the rest of her life. Sylva's story is interwoven with a contemporary sex chronicle of her son Jan, a world-renowned mathematician and émigré living in the United States, who exudes the restlessness of a man without a country.
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She left Prague with her parents in the 1970s and studied at different American universities, including the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago.
She has lived in Barcelona since the 1980s. She is the translator of many major works of Czechoslovakian fiction. She has translated more than fifty books from Czechoslovakian and Russian into Spanish and Catalan, including works by Bohumil Hrabal, Jaroslav Hašek, Václav Havel, Jaroslav Seifert, Milan Kundera, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Isaac Babel, Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva.
She regularly writes articles and editorials for El País (Spain), Louisiana Vanguardia (Spain), The Nation (United States of America), and Lidové Noviny (Czechoslovakian Republic).
Zgustova"s most acclaimed books are The Silent Woman (2005), a novel which encompasses three generations of Czechs, Russians and Americans, and, a novel based on Stalin"s daughter Svetlana"s life story.
( A rapturous novel of love, longing, and exile, The Sile...)