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Informationen zum Autor The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975. He died in Paris in 2023. A former fiction editor at The New Yorker , Linda Asher has translated work by Milan Kundera, Georges Simenon, Victor Hugo, Balzac, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Restif de la Bretonne, and many others. Awarded several translation prizes, she is a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic. Klappentext The bestselling masterpiece tale of love and exile in Prague by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being . ''An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.'' Salman Rushdie ''Kundera designs fictions of the highest order.'' Ian McEwan ''A subtle, penetrating and deeply felt exploration of the sadness, loneliness and irreparable loss of exile: one of [Kundera''s] best novels.'' Sunday Times Irena has been exiled to Paris since leaving Czechoslovakia after the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968. Twenty years later, after the collapse of Communism, she returns to her homeland - and reunites, by chance, with Josef, a fellow émigré and her one-time lover. Will they pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted in their native land almost as soon as it began - now lost in the tides of history, far from home? Or do their memories no longer align? A profound, polyphonic meditation on absence and alienation, nostalgia and truth, Ignorance is a masterpiece exposing the reality behind the romance of the homeward voyage. Vorwort The bestselling masterpiece of love and exile in Prague by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being . Zusammenfassung A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history?...
