Professor Leopold Nettles, the 'hero' of Largo Desolato, is the author of a book that contains a troublesome paragraph laying him open to arrest on charges of 'disturbing the intellectual peace.' Pressed by the government to recant, Nettles is tortured-by internal demons as well as external ones. Vaclav Havel has created a vivid and terrifying portrait of the writer in the totalitarian state that is as real and immediate as today's headlines. | Largo Desolato by VACLAV HAVEL, Paperback | Indigo Chapters