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The Visible World Book

As a boy growing up in New York, his parents' memories of their Czech homeland seem to belong to another world. It is only as an adult, when he makes his own journey to Prague, that he is finally able to piece together the truth of his parents' past: what they did, who his mother loved, and why they were never able to forget.Read More

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    The unnamed narrator of The Visible World the American-born son of Czech immigrants living in New York grows up in an atmosphere haunted by fragments of a past he cannot understand. Nowhere is this more true than in regard to his mother Ivana a spontaneous passionate woman moving ever closer to genuine despair. As an adult the narrator travels to Prague hoping to learn about a love affair between his then young mother and a member of the Czech Resistance named Tomas an affair whose untimely end he senses lays behind Ivana's unhappiness. Ultimately unable to complete his knowledge of the past he imagines the two lovers as participants in one of the more dramatic moments of the war: the actual assassination of a high-ranking Nazi official. And in the almost unimaginably romantic story he tells he creates the ending of their story and the beginning of his own. ; ; Click here to see all Richard & Judy's Book club titles and save 50%

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    Featured on the Richard & Judy Book Club, The Visible World by Mark Slouka is a remarkable story that refers back to one man?s vague memories of his childhood in war-torn Czechoslovakia. Fascinatingly constructed, this beautifully written tale sees the man, whose parents whisked him from his homeland to America at a young age, attempt to discover more about his family history and make sense of the memories he has of his mother?s love for another man. Told in two distinct halves, this powerful and gripping historical love story packs a real emotional punch.

  • 0552083054
  • 9781846270864
  • Mark Slouka
  • 1 January 2008
  • Portobello Books Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
  • New edition
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