Mark Slouka

• May-1998
• / General Fiction
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In twelve beautifully imagined stories linked by character and setting, Mark Slouka chronicles three generations of men and women under the spell of a landscape with a powerful history.

Set in a tiny Czech community on the shore’s of upstat...

• May-2002
• / General Fiction
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"If you can read [God’s Fool] without being astonished and touched, then you’d better check to see if your heart is made of stone…simply brilliant. A book of the year." -- Dallas Morning NewsBorn attached at the chest, Chang and Eng were consi...

• Apr-2007
• / General Fiction
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The unnamed narrator of The Visible World, the American-born son of Czech immigrants living in New York, grows up in an atmosphere haunted by fragments of a past he cannot understand. Nowhere is this more true than in regard to his mother, Ivana, a s...

• Nov-2010
• / Literary
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• Aug-2013
• / Literary
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A powerful story about an unforgettable friendship between two teenage boys and their hopes for escape from a dead-end town. The year is 1968. The world is changing, and sixteen-year-old Jon Mosher is determined to change with it. Racked by guilt ...

• Oct-2017
• / Literary
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Set in a tiny Czech community on the shores of Lost Lake, these stories chronicle three generations of men and women under the spell of a landscape with a powerful history. Mark Slouka explores both the quiet glory of the natural world and the myster...

• Jul-2018
• / General Fiction
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A searing, poignantly rendered collection of stories chronicling the lives of ordinary people battling the forces of love and loss. In eleven beautifully wrought stories―ranging from occupied Czechoslovakia to California’s Central Valley to th...