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001 2010023907
003 DLC
005 20111215160155.0
008 100615s2011 nyu 000 f eng
010 $a 2010023907
020 $a1400069319 (hc : alk. paper)
020 $a9781400069316 (hc : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn643568773
037 $bRandom House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157$nSAN 201-3975
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043 $an-us-ny
050 00 $aPS3620.A68655$bV33 2011
082 00 $a813/.6$222
100 1 $aTanner, Haley.
245 10 $aVaclav & Lena :$ba novel /$cHaley Tanner.
246 3 $aVaclav and Lena
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDial Press,$cc2011.
300 $a292 p. ;$c22 cm.
520 $aVaclav and Lena seem destined for each other. They meet as children in an ESL class in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Vaclav is precocious and verbal. Lena, struggling with English, takes comfort in the safety of his adoration, his noisy, loving home, and the care of Rasia, his big-hearted mother. Vaclav imagines their story unfolding like a fairy tale, or the perfect illusion from his treasured Magician's Almanac, but among the many truths to be discovered is that happily ever after is never a foregone conclusion. One day, Lena does not show up for school. She has disappeared from Vaclav and his family's lives as if by a cruel magic trick. For the next seven years, Vaclav says goodnight to Lena without fail, wondering if she is doing the same somewhere. On the eve of Lena's seventeenth birthday he finds out.
650 0 $aMagicians$vFiction.
651 0 $aBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)$vFiction.
655 0 $aDomestic fiction.