Love Letter in Cuneiform Zmeskal Tomas
Love Letter in Cuneiform Zmeskal Tomas Set in Czechoslovakia between the 1940s and the 1990s, TomasZmeskal's stimulating novel focuses on one family's tragic story of love and the unspoken. Kveta…
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Love Letter in Cuneiform Zmeskal Tomas
Set in Czechoslovakia between the 1940s and the 1990s, TomasZmeskal's stimulating novel focuses on one family's tragic story of love and the unspoken. Kveta chooses to marry Josef over their mutual friend Hynek, but when her husband is later arrested and imprisoned for an unnamed crime,Kveta gives herself to Hynek in return for help and advice. Josef meets his wife, Kveta, before theSecond World War at a public lecture on Hittite culture.
InZmeskal's tale, told not chronologically but rather as a mosaic of events, time progresses unevenly and unpredictably, as does one's understanding. The author explores the complexities of what is not spoken, what cannot be said, the repercussions of silence after an ordeal, the absurdity of forgotten pain, and what it is to be an outsider. The saga belongs to a particular family, but it also exposes the larger, ongoing struggle of postcommunist EasternEurope to come to terms with suffering when catharsis is denied.Reporting from a fresh, multicultural perspective, Zmeskal makes a welcome contribution to European literature in the twenty-first century.