Vaclav & Lena by Haley Tanner

Vaclav & Lena by Haley Tanner

NAMED BY THE NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION AS A 5 UNDER 35 AUTHOR

Vaclav and Lena seem destined for each other. They meet as children in an ESL class in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Vaclav is precocious and verbal. Lena, struggling with English, takes comfort in the safety of his adoration, his noisy, loving home, and the care of Rasia, his big-hearted mother. Vaclav imagines their story unfolding like a fairy tale, or the perfect illusion from his treasured Magician's Almanac. But one day, Lena does not show up for school. She has disappeared from Vaclav and his family's lives as if by a cruel sleight of hand. For the next seven years, Vaclav says goodnight to Lena without fail, wondering if she is doing the same somewhere. On the eve of Lena's seventeenth birthday he finds out. In Vaclav & Lena, Haley Tanner has created two unforgettable young protagonists who evoke the joy, the confusion, and the passion of having a profound, everlasting connection.

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Praise for Vaclav & Lena

Wonderful and wrenching . . . Vibrant characters, believable romance and dark undertones make for a moving tale.--The New York Times

From the moment they meet, Vaclav and Lena make magic together. . . . Through all the twists and turns of the book, the most enduring theme of the novel is love.--NPR

Haley Tanner's assured narrative voice finds new ways to describe emotion and character, stunning the reader again and again with small shocks of awareness. This book is sad, funny, true, and shot through with grace.--Judy Blundell, National Book Award-winning author of What I Saw and How I Lied

Highly recommended . . . Tanner's captivating debut novel is a love story of unusual innocence and intensity and] a suspenseful, literary work that is hard to put down.--Library Journal

A debut to savor . . . Tanner's charming story unfolds as gracefully as a flower.--People

The magic Tanner makes is as dazzling as it is profound.--Booklist

HALEY TANNER was born in 1982 in New York. She holds an MFA from The New School and a BA from Clark University. She lives in Brooklyn. This is her first novel.

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ISBN 13	9780812981636
ISBN 10	0812981634
Title	Vaclav & Lena
Author	Haley Tanner
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2012-02-07
Number of pages	320
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