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  The Visible World (Paperback) By (author) Mark Slouka

  

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  Short Description for The Visible WorldFrom an author whose gifts recall Milan Kundera and W.G. Sebald, "The Visible World" is a literary page-turner and an immensely powerful novel about the vagaries of love and the need to make sense of life through the telling of stories.
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  • Publisher: Mariner Books
  • Published: 01 April 2008
  • Format: Paperback 242 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780547053677 ISBN 10: 0547053673
  • Sales rank: 1,115,785

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• An immensely moving, powerfully romantic novel about the vagaries of love and the legacy of war, The Visible World is narrated by the American-born son of Czech immigrants. His New York childhood, lived in a boisterous community of the displaced, is suffused with stories: fragments of European history, Czech fairy tales, and family secrets gleaned from overheard conversations. Central in his young imagination is the heroic account of the seven Czech parachutists who, in 1942, assassinated a high-ranking Nazi. Yet one essential story has always evaded him: his mother's. He suspects she had a great wartime love, the loss of which bred a sadness that slowly engulfed her. As an adult, the narrator travels to Prague, hoping to piece together her hidden past.