Visible World [Paperback] Slouka, Mark

A man tries to piece together his parents' wartime love story — a Czech resistance fighter and the woman he loved in Nazi-occupied Prague. Decades later, their son travels to the city, retracing fragments of memory, old letters, and silences that shaped his childhood. Mark Slouka weaves a hypnotic meditation on memory, loss, and the stories we inherit. The prose is spare and haunting, moving between New York, Prague, and the gaps where history and family mythology blur. Part detective story, part elegy, this is a book about what we can never fully know about the people closest to us. For readers who love quiet, literary fiction that lingers — fans of W.G. Sebald or Anne Michaels.