How I came to know fish

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‘Of all the sleep a man can have, the fisherman’s sleep is the sweetest. It is the greatest of luxuries – sleep and fishing.’

Through tender, vivid, and often humorous recollections – from magical fishing trips to the rivers and ponds of Bustehrad to his charismatic father’s eccentric business ventures – this bittersweet memoir tells the story of a childhood in Czechoslovakia, against the backdrop of World War II.