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The Visible World

By Mark Slouka

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| Paperback | 9781846270864

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This is a story about memory and concealed histories, and about the way that the most fiercely-held secrets of the past eventually force their way to the surface. It begins with a boy, the child of Czech immigrants to the US, who is brought up hearing the ancient myths, and the folktales of his pareContinue

This is a story about memory and concealed histories, and about the way that the most fiercely-held secrets of the past eventually force their way to the surface. It begins with a boy, the child of Czech immigrants to the US, who is brought up hearing the ancient myths, and the folktales of his parents' homeland. As he grows older, he becomes aware that the one story he hasn't been told is what his parents did during the war. It is only as an adult, when he makes a journey back to Czechoslovakia, that he discovers their part in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious 'butcher of Prague'.

Embedded at the heart of this gripping history is a powerful love story - of a tragic passion and an enduring commitment. Plotted with all the intensity of a thriller, The Visible World is immediately involving, and a novel to delight on every level - intellectual, literary and emotional.

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  • War wounds

    The Visible World by Mark Slouka Portobello £14.99, pp320 Mark Slouka's second novel, The Visible World, tells the story of an anonymous man, the son, like Slouka himself, of Czech immigrants living in the US, who travels to Prague in the hope of pie ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • Paperback 256 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 1846270863
  • ISBN-13: 9781846270864
  • Publisher: Portobello Books Ltd
  • Pub date: Jan 01, 2008
  • Also available as: Hardcover
  • In other languages: other languages 繁體書
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