Lovers for a Day by Ivan Klma
Ivan Klima has been called a Czech genius by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. In these stories spanning his long career from the 1960s to the present, he gives us a gallery of people searching, in love, for escape: factory girls on their day off and assembly-line workers lost in Walter-Mittyesque fantasies; a young woman on a honeymoon with the man she did not marry; a divorce-court judge whose mistress cannot understand his affection for the routines of his marriage; a young wife who falls into a passionate affair with an elderly bookbinder crippled by war. Lovers for a Day is a book stamped with Klima's unique wisdom, a personal history of a national evolution and an acute and moving examination of our attempts to find freedom in love. Ivan Klima's view of love is often witty, sometimes playful, and has a convincing sense of the erotic. and] the kindness that can endure between a husband and wife long after the passion has fled. -- Andrew Miller, The New York Times Book Review; Klima has evolved differently from his contemporaries. Rather than become embittered by his country's past, Klima has come to a truce with imperfection -- the imperfection of history and of love. -- Jennie Yabroff, San Francisco Chronicle| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780802137470 |
| ISBN 10 | 0802137474 |
| Title | Lovers for a Day |
| Author | Ivan Klíma |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Year published | 2000-10-09 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |