Ignorance
by:
Milan Kundera (author)
Linda Asher (contributor)
A New York Times Notable Book Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The...
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A New York Times Notable Book Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence "their memories no longer match."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060002107 (0060002107)
Publish date: 2003-09-30
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Romance,
Philosophy,
Contemporary,
France,
Czech Literature,
Fiction
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