The Visible World: A Novel - Brossura

Slouka, Mark

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0547053673 ISBN 13: 9780547053677

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2008

Riassunto

Growing up in New York as the American-born son of Czech immigrants, the narrator journeys to Prague as an adult in the hope of learning more about his mother, Ivana, her love affair with a member of the Czech Resistance, and their possible involvement in the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi official. By the author of God's Fool. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Mark Slouka is the child of Czech immigrants himself, and draws on his personal experience and the inevitable intrusions of the past on the present. He is the author of the novel God’s Fool, named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle, the short story collection Lost Lake, a New York Times Notable Book in 1998, and the nonfiction work War of the Worlds. Three of his essays have been selected for inclusion in The Best American Essays, and his short story “The Woodcarvers Tale” won the National Magazine Award for fiction. He is a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine, and is currently the director for the writing program at the University of Chicago.

Product Description:

From an author whose gifts recall Milan Kundera and W.G. Sebald, "The Visible World" is a literary page-turner and an immensely powerful novel about the vagaries of love and the need to make sense of life through the telling of stories.

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• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0547053673
• ISBN 13: 9780547053677
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 250