The visible world / Mark Slouka.

"The Visible World is an evocative, powerfully romantic novel about a son's attempt to understand his mother's past, a search that leads him to a tragic love affair and the heroic story of the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi by the Czech resistance. The narrator of The Visible Wo...

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Main Author: Slouka, Mark
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Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2007.
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