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The Visible World: A Novel
Book Details
Author(s)Mark Slouka
PublisherMariner Books
ISBN / ASIN0547053673
ISBN-139780547053677
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,329,157
CategoryFiction
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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.
















