L'Ignorance

Ignorance is a short novel about exile and return. After the fall of Communism, two Czech emigrants, Irena and Josef, meet by chance in Prague airport and are drawn together as they revisit their homeland after twenty years away. They find that home has changed and that memories rarely match what others recall. Drawing on the Odyssey, Kundera reflects on nostalgia, the pull of the past and the strangeness of coming back.