The scholars of literature who contribute here, like the authors they examine, left their native countries in the gray zone separating and linking Europe and Asia. Among their topics are language and memory in Nabokov's "Revolution," Gombrowicz living on the margins in exile and loving it, Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the phenomenology of exile and the management of pain in Dubravka Ugresic's The Ministry of Pain, and Norman Manea's eternal exile. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)