Lovers for a Day : New and Collected Stories on Love,9780802116512

Lovers for a Day : New and Collected Stories on Love

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ISBN13: 9780802116512
ISBN10: 0802116515
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-09-01
Publisher(s): Pgw
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Summary

Ivan Klima has been acclaimed by Booklist as "one of the most important literary voices of Eastern Europe, on a par with Havel, Konrad, and Haraszti." His novels Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light and The Ultimate Intimacy have established him as a writer with a uniquely wry perspective on human affection.

In Lovers for a Day, he delivers a beautiful and masterfully crafted collection of short stories on the theme of love. In "Heaven Hell Paradise, " a doctor who has escaped to London comes back to communist Czechoslovakia to be with his lover and realizes too late that he barely knows her. And in "A Baffling Choice, " a young woman begins an affair with an older man who lives in her apartment building, right under the nose of his wife. The dreams and frustrations of the student cafeteria and the turmoil of political exile in the early 1960s evolve into portraits of people struggling with responsibility, fidelity, and absence, haunted by a terrible guilt when their desires begin to become reality. Klima's unique wisdom creates a personal political hi

Table of Contents

Lovers for One Night 3(122)
Execution of a Horse
3(22)
The Assembly Line
25(24)
Lingula
49(35)
Heaven, Hell, Paradise
84(26)
Honeymoon
110(15)
Intimate Conversations 125(38)
Long-Distance Conversations
125(18)
Conjugal Conversations
143(20)
About Love and Death 163
Uranus in the House of Death
163(15)
It's Raining Out
178(9)
A Baffling Choice
187(16)
Rich Men Tend to Be Strange
203(14)
The White House
217

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