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Slouka, Mark.
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Heydrich, Reinhard, 1904-1942 -- Fiction.
Czech Americans -- Fiction.
Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1938-1945 -- Fiction.
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Slouka, Mark.
Heydrich, Reinhard, 1904-1942 -- Fiction.
Czech Americans -- Fiction.
Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1938-1945 -- Fiction.
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The
visible
world
/ Mark Slouka.
by
Slouka, Mark.
Houghton Mifflin, c2007.
Call #:
FICTION SLO
Subjects
Heydrich, Reinhard, 1904-1942 -- Fiction.
Czech Americans -- Fiction.
Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1938-1945 -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780618756438
0618756434
Description:
242 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"The unnamed narrator (the son of Czech emigres) travels to Prague to seek out the story behind his unhappy mother's lost love. Bringing in major events from wartime Czechoslovakia, this is a poignant yet page turning tale from an up-and-coming author." -- HPL Readers Advisor.
"The
Visible
World
is an evocative, powerfully romantic novel about a son's attempt to understand his mother's past, a search that leads him to a tragic love affair and the heroic story of the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi by the Czech resistance. The 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. At the heart of that past is his mother, Ivana, a spontaneous, passionate woman drifting ever closer to 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 resistance named Tomas, an affair whose untimely end, he senses, lay 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 (and true) moments of the war, and through the deeply romantic story he tells, creates not only the ending of their story but the beginning of his own. The
Visible
World
is a literary page-turner and an immensely moving novel about the vagaries of love and our need to make sense of life through the telling of stories."--Inside jacket.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Love stories.
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