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The unnamed narrator of The Visible World, the American-born son of Czech immigrants living in New York, grows up in an atmosphere haunted by fragments of a past he cannot understand. Nowhere is this more true than in regard to his mother, Ivana, a spontaneous, passionate woman moving ever closer to genuine despair. As an adult, the narrator travels to Prague, hoping to learn about a love affair between his then young mother and a member of the Czech Resistance named Tomas, an affair whose untimely end, he senses, lays behind Ivana's unhappiness. Ultimately unable to complete his knowledge of the past, he imagines the two lovers as participants in one of the more dramatic moments of the war: the actual assassination of a high-ranking Nazi official. And, in the almost unimaginably romantic story he tells, he creates the ending of their story and the beginning of his own.
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Portobello Books Ltd (United Kingdom) | |
2008 | |
9781846270864 | |
Paperback - 256 Pages |
Average rating (1 review)
Dissapointing
gnrsally | 01/09/2008 | See all gnrsally's reviews (4) »
I adore reading books set during major historical events because the backdrop is often more moving and exciting than most other novels. This book however is dull. It is slow right from the start, the only reason i continued reading was the thought that something exciting must happen, some deep family secret - but there was nothing. The author has added too many pointless characters with confusing names, so you can never remember who is who. The only positive thing that I can say about this book is that it did very well in highlighting the plight of the Czech people during the war. A good book to read before bed if you're looking to be sent to sleep.
