Ignorance: A Novel | 
pickThis is a very touching depiction of how it feels to be an immigrant returning to your home country 20 or 30 years later. After the fall of communism in 1989 in Europe, Irena returns from Paris to Prague. She and others like her return led by nostalgia, but the ignorance, under all its forms, displayed by their relatives and former friends shows how absence can create a huge chasm between people, with no hope to reconnect with the past.
#QuotsyJune18 Day 7: #Nostalgia is an “unappeased yearning to return” says Kundera. He may just be right.
pickA beautiful book about nostalgia. Milan Kundera is a delicious writer, describing human feelings in such a delicate way that we can‘t but feel for the characters.
Nostalgia and a lot of uncomfortable questions slowly creep into your head, leaving you wondering for a long time. Feeling sad for human condition, but also comforted because you recognise so much. The novel does what the best books should accomplish, enriching you as a human.
Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing.
