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Ivan Klima has been called a Czech genius by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. In these stories spanning his long career from the 1960s to the present, he gives us a gallery of people searching, in love, for escape: factory girls on their day off and assembly-line workers lost in Walter-Mittyesque fantasies; a young woman on a honeymoon with the man she did not marry; a divorce-court judge whose mistress cannot understand his affection for the routines of his marriage; a young wife who falls into a passionate affair with an elderly bookbinder crippled by war.
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"Lovers for a Day is a book stamped with Klima's unique wisdom, a personal history of a national evolution and an acute and moving examination of our attempts to find freedom in love. Ivan Klima's view of love is often witty, sometimes playful, and has a convincing sense of the erotic... [and] the kindness that can endure between a husband and wife long after the passion has fled."
Andrew Miller, The New York Times Book Review
"Klima has evolved differently from his contemporaries... Rather than become embittered by his country's past, Klima has come to a truce with imperfection - the imperfection of history and of love."
Jennie Yabroff, San Francisco Chronicle