An edition of L'Ignorance (2000)

Ignorance

A Novel

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An edition of L'Ignorance (2000)

Ignorance

A Novel

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.5 (8 ratings)
  • 36 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 14 Have read

Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their Czech 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 almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history?

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Harper Perennial
Language
English
Pages
208

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Subjects

Man-woman relationships Fiction Reunions Separation (Psychology) Czech fiction Memory Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) Exil Communism Velvet Revolution Fiction, psychological Prague (czech republic), fiction Fiction, romance, general Relations entre hommes et femmes Romans, nouvelles Relaciones hombre-mujer Ficción

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Irena Josef

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Prague (Czech Republic)

Times

20th century

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Cover of: Ignorance
Ignorance
2005, Faber & Faber, Limited
in English
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L'ignorance
2005, Gallimard
in French
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Nevedenie
2004, Azbuka-klassika
in Russian
Cover of: L'Ignorance
L'Ignorance
April 3, 2003, Gallimard
Paperback in French
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Ignorance
2003, Perennial
in English - 1st Perennial ed.
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Ignorance: A Novel
September 30, 2003, Harper Perennial
in English
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Ignorance
2002, Faber
in English
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Ignorance
2002, HarperCollins Publishers
in English - 1st ed.
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Die Unwissenheit.
November 1, 2002, Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt
Paperback in German
Cover of: Die Unwissenheit.
Die Unwissenheit.
February 1, 2001, Carl Hanser
Hardcover
Cover of: La ignorancia.
La ignorancia.
2000, Tusquets Editores

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Book Details

First Sentence

""What are you still doing here?""

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL7274313M
ISBN 10
0060002107
ISBN 13
9780060002107
LibraryThing
5136
Goodreads
78728

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OL9978404W

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Excerpts

"Co tady ještě děláš!" Její hlas nebyl zlý, ale nebyl ani přívětivý; Sylvie se hněvala.
"A kde bych měla být?" zeptala se Irena.
"Doma!"
"Chceš říct, že tady už nejsem doma?"
Ovšem, nechtěla ji vyhánět z Francie, ani jí naznačovat, že je nežádoucí cizinka: "Ty víš, co chci říct!"
Page 9, added by kucharczyk.

It introduces the central theme of the whole book.

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