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Encounter with the future - by Anika Pavel (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Good for the soul book!Learn how dreams come true.Heartwarming, tender, meaningful and captivating.Imagine if an 18-year-old girl landed across the iron curtain for the first time...alone.What if that girl went from being a nanny, to a fashion model, to an actress and from London to Hong Kong, to USA in a full and wonderful life encompassing rock'n'roll, new business ventures, a family and everything in between?It is not a movie script; this is a real story!Anika Pavel was born Jarmila Kocvarova in communist Czechoslovakia.She bravely ventured across the iron curtain to England for what was intended to be a one-year stay.As her life transpires, she goes from sleeping in phone booths to a Bond girl in the swinging London of the 1960s and 70s.
- Author(s): Anika Pavel
- 360 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts
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About the Book
The stories in this book are people stories; a political and social drama running parallel with rapid coming of age in unknown world. In between is a history of tiny country and its people, lessons learned and family remembered.
Book Synopsis
Good for the soul book!Learn how dreams come true.Heartwarming, tender, meaningful and captivating.Imagine if an 18-year-old girl landed across the iron curtain for the first time...alone.
What if that girl went from being a nanny, to a fashion model, to an actress and from London to Hong Kong, to USA in a full and wonderful life encompassing rock'n'roll, new business ventures, a family and everything in between?
It is not a movie script; this is a real story!
Anika Pavel was born Jarmila Kocvarova in communist Czechoslovakia.
She bravely ventured across the iron curtain to England for what was intended to be a one-year stay.
As her life transpires, she goes from sleeping in phone booths to a Bond girl in the swinging London of the 1960s and 70s.
These are the stories of her life and the people she has shared it with. Heartwarming, tender, meaningful and captivating.
In a series of essays, some intimate and small, some touching upon the major historical moments of the twentieth century, Pavel takes us on an unforgettable journey.
Pick up your copy today and warm up your heart with those authentic touching stories.
"Pavel manages, from her present and sophisticated vantage, to evoke the innocence of youth."
-Nicholas Delbanco, author of Why Writing Matters
"Stories that are at turns funny and poignant, sometimes at the same time, and always memorable."
-Emma Hamilton, Professor of Literature, Stony Brook
"Steeped in compassion and grace."
-Mark Hummel, author of Man, Underground
Review Quotes
A natural storyteller and shrewd observer - Publishers Weekly
Anika Pavel's essays have accomplished what we always ask of great writing, to transport us in place and time and original vision. - bioStories Magazine
Beautifully written and captivating...it will make you look differently at your own life. - Cindy Myers, author of Mile High Mystery
A touching tale of a woman who makes it through the tornados of life and still comes out centered. - Goodreads