# How I Came to Know Fish

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- Book: [How I Came to Know Fish](https://www.bookquiver.com/ota-pavel/how-i-came-to-know-fish) ([How I Came to Know Fish.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ota-pavel/how-i-came-to-know-fish.md))
- Authors: [Ota Pavel](https://www.bookquiver.com/ota-pavel)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4175-228-9
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2025-04-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

‘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.