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The Visible World As a boy growing up in New York, his parents' memories of their Czech homeland seem to belong to another world. It is only as an adult, when he makes his own journey to Prague, that he is finally able to piece together the truth of his parents' past: what they did, who his mother loved, and why they were never able to forget. Full description
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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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"An eloquent testament to the power of storytelling."
"This is a penetrating, beautifully composed novel from a writer with a tangible sense of place and period."
"The Visible World reveals what is invisible within us. It's a pure pleasure to turn its pages." -- Ha Jin
" The sheer beauty of Mark Slouka's prose will draw comparisons to The English Patient." --Gary Shteyngart
" Sentence for sentence, word for word, Mark Slouka is one of our very best writers... a book that will last." --Colum McCann
" Mark Slouka, with this novel, proves what an exceptional writer he is... a master of the American vernacular." --Amit Chaudhuri
" Mark Slouka's elegant book keeps alive the essential mystery of life - love." -Norman Manea
" A masterful work, it calls to mind the very finest Czech writers... I will re-read [it] again and again." -Steve Yarbrough
" His novel' s power lives in the imaginative effort... to portray loss that is inherited... It' s a moving book." -Richard Ford
" Rich with intelligence and poetic detail, The Visible World demonstrates why Mark Slouka is one of our finest contemporary novelists." -Elizabeth Berg
"This is a penetrating, beautifully composed novel from a writer with a tangible sense of place and period."
"The Visible World reveals what is invisible within us. It's a pure pleasure to turn its pages." -- Ha Jin
" The sheer beauty of Mark Slouka's prose will draw comparisons to The English Patient." --Gary Shteyngart
" Sentence for sentence, word for word, Mark Slouka is one of our very best writers... a book that will last." --Colum McCann
" Mark Slouka, with this novel, proves what an exceptional writer he is... a master of the American vernacular." --Amit Chaudhuri
" Mark Slouka's elegant book keeps alive the essential mystery of life - love." -Norman Manea
" A masterful work, it calls to mind the very finest Czech writers... I will re-read [it] again and again." -Steve Yarbrough
" His novel' s power lives in the imaginative effort... to portray loss that is inherited... It' s a moving book." -Richard Ford
" Rich with intelligence and poetic detail, The Visible World demonstrates why Mark Slouka is one of our finest contemporary novelists." -Elizabeth Berg
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- PublisherMariner Books
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0547053673
- ISBN 13 9780547053677
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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