How I Came to Know Fish

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 bold business ventures - Pavel's enchanting, bittersweet memoir tells the story of a childhood in Czechoslovakia, against the backdrop of the Second World War.