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A story of irreconcilable love and infidelities in which Kundera addresses himself to the nature of 20th-century being
"one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century
a dissident factory worker
for a Nobel Peace Prize
and a new translation by Andrea L
Tightrope - Americans Reaching For Hope Arthur Ross Book Award for Silver Medal (2012) A story of irreconcilable loveWith stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue collar jobs disappeared. About one quarter of the children on Kristof's old school bus died in adulthood from
