Tusi se faaauauina o lenei palakalafa - Na fanau o ia i Prague ma aʻoaʻoina le tusitusi o tala i le Academy of Performing Arts i Prague. Na sau o ia i Toronto i le tausaga e 1969 faatasi ma lana tane o Josef Škvorecký ina ua mavae le osofaʻiga a le Soviet i Czechoslovakia
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