<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their 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?<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A <em>New York Times</em> Notable Book</p><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><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"An entertaining and thought-provoking work"--<em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</em><br><br>"Kundera once more delivers a seductive, intelligent entertainment ... [with] elegance and grace."--<em>Washington Post Book World</em><br><br>"Moving ... There is a painful injustice and inequality to memory, which these encounters beautifully illustrate."--<em>Boston Globe</em><br><br>"Nothing short of masterful."--<em>Newsweek</em><br><br>"Rendered with compassion and humor."--<em>Library Journal</em><br><br>"Erudite and playful...An impassioned account of the émigré as a character on the stage of European history."--Maureen Howard, New York Times Book Review<br><br>"[A] beautifully written tale of desire and loss."--Newark Star Ledger<br><br>"A tour de force."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution<br><br>"By far his most successful [novel] since THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING."--Los Angeles Times Book Review<br><br>"Elegant ... the emotional and intellectual payoff is extraordinary."--Time Out New York<br><br>"Kundera is and elegant writer ... He does a masterful job of reminding that the political is the personal."--Rocky Mountain News<br><br>"Literary excellence ... [Kundera's] irony and wit are ...on target, his characters vivid and convincing."--Los Angeles Times Book Review<br><br>"Milan's Kundera's resonant new novel IGNORANCE ....[is] wonderfully nuanced .... affecting."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times<br><br>"Precise and spare ...page by page this novel is dazzling."--Montreal Gazette<br>
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