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The Visible World
The Visible World
Author: Mark Slouka
The Visible World is an evocative, powerfully romantic novel about a son's attempt to understand his mother's past, a search that leads him to a tragic love affair and the heroic story of the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi by the Czech resistance. — The narrator of The Visible World, the American-born son of Czech ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780547053677
ISBN-10: 0547053673
Publication Date: 3/18/2008
Pages: 256
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  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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3.2 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: Mariner Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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An atmosphereic mix of adventure, mystery and romance, as well as a nuanced tale of one family coping with the nightmare of history. The sheer beauty of Mark Slonksa's prose will draw comparisons to "The English Patient"

Gary Shteyngart

This is lush, luminous fiction.

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