Ignorance: A Novel - Couverture souple

Kundera, Milan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060002107 ISBN 13 : 9780060002107

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2003

Synopsis

A New York Times Notable BookIrena 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."

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“Erudite and playful...An impassioned account of the émigré as a character on the stage of European history.” (Maureen Howard, New York Times Book Review)

“Milan’s Kundera’s resonant new novel IGNORANCE ....[is] wonderfully nuanced .... affecting.” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)

“Moving ... There is a painful injustice and inequality to memory, which these encounters beautifully illustrate.” (Boston Globe)

“Literary excellence ... [Kundera’s] irony and wit are ...on target, his characters vivid and convincing.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

“By far his most successful [novel] since THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

“Kundera once more delivers a seductive, intelligent entertainment ... [with] elegance and grace.” (Washington Post Book World)

“Nothing short of masterful.” (Newsweek)

“[A] beautifully written tale of desire and loss.” (Newark Star Ledger)

“Elegant ... the emotional and intellectual payoff is extraordinary.” (Time Out New York)

“Precise and spare ...page by page this novel is dazzling.” (Montreal Gazette)

Biographie de l'auteur :

Milan Kundera is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves—all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060002107
• ISBN 13: 9780060002107
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208