The Visible World

Mark Slouka

2008-ж. июн. · Naxos AudioBooks · Баяндап берген Glen McCready

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Mark SloukaÕs novel begins with the child of Czech immigrants to the US, now living in New York, who has been brought up on the folklore of his parentsÕ homeland. As he grows up he becomes aware that he has never been told what his parents did during the Nazi occupation of Prague. As an adult he makes a journey back to Czechoslovakia and it is only then that he discovers their part in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious Ôbutcher of PragueÕ and begins to understand his mother IvanaÕs unhappiness. Intertwined with this gripping history is a passionate love story, the tragic consequences of which transcend both years and continents.

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Mark Slouka is a graduate of Columbia University and he has taught at Harvard and the University of California at San Diego. He currently teaches at Columbia and lives in New York City with his wife and children.