The Visible World: A Novel
by Slouka, Mark
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- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0547053673
- ISBN 13
- 9780547053677
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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.
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- GridFreed LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10-13788a
- Title
- The Visible World: A Novel
- Author
- Slouka, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 3
- ISBN 10
- 0547053673
- ISBN 13
- 9780547053677
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Date Published
- 2008-03-18
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