Ivan Klima has been called a "Czech genius" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. In these stories spanning his long career from the 1960s to the present, he gives us a gallery of people searching, in love, for escape: factory girls on their day off and assembly-line workers lost in Walter-Mittyesque fantasies, a young woman on a honeymoon with the man she did not marry, a divorce-court judge whose mistress cannot understand his affection for the routines of his marriage, a young wife who falls into a passionate affair with an elderly bookbinder crippled by war. Lovers for a Day is a book stamped with Klima's unique wisdom, a personal history of a national evolution and an acute and moving examination of our attempts to find freedom in love.
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ISBN | 9780802137470 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Grove Atlantic |
Jahr | 200010 |
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