Lovers for a Day: New and Collected Stories on Love

by IvanKlima (Author), Gerald Turner (Translator)

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  Paperback
  2000

  $4.76

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.30

  'Well-served by his excellent translator, Gerald Turner, his beautifully constructed fictions are full of life and colour, of observation as affecting as it is precise, and of a robust sympathy for the human condition that celebrates his characters' courage in trying to seize joy from life, even as it record their failure.' The Times These previously untranslated stories span Ivan Klima's career, from exiled dissident to celebrated author, and form a personal history of Prague that is an acute and moving examination of our attempts to find freedom in love.

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $3.30

  Drawn from the collections, Lovers for a Day and Intimate Conversations , the stories in this book span the author's career and form a personal history of Prague. Dreams and frustrations of the student cafeteria in the 1960s evolve into portraits of young people struggling with responsibility.