false 78728 36 <p>Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier. 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? The truth is that after such a long absence "their memories no longer match."</p> 3424606 1384 Ignorance: A Novel total:1972|5:10|4:17|3:9|2:3|1:0| 1972 7121 2755 109 5 3 false false Mon May 19 20:51:49 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 18:59:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Feb 17 00:31:59 -0800 2007 Fri Mar 30 01:26:43 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false true Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Tue Mar 04 21:27:36 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 21:30:42 -0800 2008
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Still, I always like his disarming writing style. Normally I dislike 'meta-writing' where the author mentions him or herself, but with Kundera, it works. He ac...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 19:29:37 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 19:33:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 02 17:36:46 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 15 07:33:42 -0800 2008 My...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 22 06:00:14 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 06:02:10 -0700 2008
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Bypassing the question of whether you can ever go home again, Milan Kundera's Ignorance tackles instead what happens when you actually get there. Ignorance is the story of two Czechs who meet by chance while trave...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 08 16:00:49 -0800 2008 Sat Jul 05 11:17:16 -0700 2008 I could compare this book to some of my own writings about emigration, and I don't think I'd see much difference. The characters and the stories are different; but the mood is the same, the thoughts are the ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 11 12:15:02 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 11 12:59:54 -0800 2007
This is a book about two people, separative lives, two people who have never met before, but who have s...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri May 04 12:09:41 -0700 2007 Fri May 04 12:09:49 -0700 2007
wednesday night i finished ignorance, about the third or fourth novel of milan kundera's that i have read. so far i have found that his later works, such as this, written in the language of his adopted home (french) rather than his homeland (czech) are simpler, mor...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Sep 28 10:43:51 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 08 08:02:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 10:03:22 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 16:45:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 18:01:40 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 18:03:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 15:48:43 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 08:09:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 22 04:36:36 -0800 2007 Sat May 31 11:49:34 -0700 2008 به نقل از سایت کتاب انتشارات کاروان
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