How I Came to Know Fish

Ota Pavel

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Penguin
15 July 2025

Biography; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Penguin Archive

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

'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.

By: Ota Pavel
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 180mm, Width: 109mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 91g
ISBN: 9780241752289
ISBN 10: 0241752280
Series: Penguin Archive
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 15 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Children's (6-12)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Ota Pavel (1930-1973) worked for much of his short life as a journalist and sports reporter. Despite serious bouts of mental illness he wrote brilliant, lyrical accounts, some collected in How I Came to Know Fish, of his childhood and his family in a Czechoslovakia under overwhelming threat from Nazism.