Lost Wife

There on her forearm, next to a small brown birthmark, were six tattooed numbers. ''Do you remember me now?'' he asked, trembling. She looked at him again, as if giving weight and bone to a ghost. ''Lenka, it''s me,'' he said. ''Josef. Your husband.'' During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, falls in love with Josef. They marry - but soon, like so many oth...