| Ignorance Contributor(s): Kundera, Milan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060002107 ISBN-13: 9780060002107 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier when they chose to become exiles. 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? |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - Contemporary - Fiction | Cultural Heritage - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.26" W x 8.09" (0.36 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kundera, Milan: - Milan Kundera is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves--all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French. |
