The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Author(s): Milan Kundera

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In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places; brilliant and playful reflections; and a variety of styles to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world's truly great writers.


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One of the most important and affecting novels written in the twentieth century.

Milan Kundera was born in Brno and has lived in France for over forty years. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels including The Joke (1967), Life is Elsewhere (1973), The Farewell Waltz (1976), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1978), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Immortality (1991), and the short-story collection Laughable Loves (1969).

General Fields

  • : 9780571135394
  • : Faber & Faber
  • : Faber & Faber
  • : 0.247
  • : November 1986
  • : 197mm X 127mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 314
  • : very good
  • : 891.8/635
  • : English
  • : Paperback
  • : Milan Kundera
  • : Michael Henry Heim