An immensely moving, powerfully romantic novel about the
vagaries of love and the legacy of war, The Visible World is
narrated by the American-born son of Czech immigrants. His New York
childhood, lived in a boisterous community of the displaced, is
suffused with stories: fragments of European history, Czech fairy
tales, and family secrets gleaned from overheard conversations.
Central in his young imagination is the heroic account of the seven
Czech parachutists who, in 1942, assassinated a high-ranking Nazi.
Yet one essential story has always evaded him: his mother's. He
suspects she had a great wartime love, the loss of which bred a
sadness that slowly engulfed her. As an adult, the narrator travels
to Prague, hoping to piece together her hidden past.
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