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Ignorance: A Novel [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Fiction)
  • Author:  Milan Kundera
  • Author:  Milan Kundera
  • ISBN-10:  0060002107
  • ISBN-10:  0060002107
  • ISBN-13:  9780060002107
  • ISBN-13:  9780060002107
  • Publisher:  Harper Perennial
  • Publisher:  Harper Perennial
  • Pages:  208
  • Pages:  208
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-2003
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-2003
  • SKU:  0060002107-11-MING
  • SKU:  0060002107-11-MING
  • Item ID: 100000041
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ANew York TimesNotable 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.

Erudite and playful...An impassioned account of the ?migr? as a character on the stage of European history.Milans Kunderas resonant new novel IGNORANCE &.[is] wonderfully nuanced &. affecting.Moving & There is a painful injustice and inequality to memory, which these encounters beautifully illustrate.Literary excellence & [Kunderas] irony and wit are &on target, his characters vivid and convincing.By far his most successful [novel] since THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING.Kundera once more delivers a seductive, intelligent entertainment & [with] elegance and grace.Nothing short of masterful.[A] beautifully written tale of desire and loss.Elegant & the emotional and intellectual payoff is extraordinary.Precise and spare &page by page this novel is dazzling.Rendered with compassion and humor.An entertaining and thought-provoking workKundera is and elegant writer & He does a masterful job of reminding that the political is the personal.A tour de force.
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