The Visible World
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780547525211 (0547525214)
Publish date: March 18th 2008
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Love,
Literature,
European Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
War,
Contemporary,
Czech Literature
This novel is split into three different sections: ""The New World", "Prague Intermezzo" and finally "1942: A Novel". The book's narrator is the son of Czechoslovakian parents. He is seeking to understand and to make sense of the events of his childhood and the estrangement he felt between his mothe...
Beautifully written in luminous prose and built upon acute psychological observation, this is the story of a woman whose life is first illuminated and then blighted by her involvement with the Czech resistance during the second world war. It's told from the point of view of her son who slowly uneart...
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