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Cecily
May 30, 2008 rated it really liked it
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The tender story of a Czech serial adulterer and his wife, written in the early 1980s but set during times of political and personal upheaval, as told/analysed by a philosopher-cum-psychologist (who never explains his relationship with the characters). Light and deep - deserving of rereading. The Oxford Companion to Eng Lit cites this as an example of magic realism - though I can't see why.


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