1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner

The Year of the Frog: A Novel
Martin M. Simecka, Peter Petro
In Czechoslovakia during the 1980s, young Milan comforts himself with long-distance running and a woman named Tania, when he is forbidden entrance into the university because of his father’s political activities. Reprint. 15,000 first printing….
1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Shortlist

A Place Where the Sea Remembers
Sandra Benitez

In Search of Bernabé
Graciela Limón

On Love
Alain de Botton
