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A sweeping, tragic romance and feminist adventure about translator and resistance fighter Milena Jesenska's torrid love affair with Franz Kafka.

In 1919, Milena Jesenska, a clever and spirited twenty-three-year-old, is trapped in an unhappy marriage to literary critic Ernst Pollak. Since Pollak is unable to support the pair in Vienna's…

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