The Visible World
de Slouka, Mark
- Usado
- good
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 1846271606
- ISBN 13
- 9781846271601
- Librería
-
Tokyo, Japan
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Sobre este artículo
US: Potobello, 2008. Paperback. Good. Mark Slouka's novel begins with the child of Czech immigrants to the US, no w living in New York, who has been brought up on the folklore of his parent s' homeland. As he grows up he becomes aware that he has never been told wh at his parents did during the Nazi occupation of Prague. As an adult he mak es a journey back to Czechoslovakia and it is only then that he discovers t heir part in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious "butcher of Prague" and begins to understand his mother Ivana's unhappiness. Intert wined with this gripping history is a passionate love story, the tragic con sequences of which transcend both years and continents.
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Infinity Books Japan
(JP)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- RWARE0000051822
- Título
- The Visible World
- Autor
- Slouka, Mark
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1846271606
- ISBN 13
- 9781846271601
- Editorial
- Potobello
- Lugar de publicación
- US
- Fecha de publicación
- 2008
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