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ISBN-10: 0061148520
ISBN-13: 9780061148521
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publish Date: 10/27/2009
Dimensions: 8.10" L, 5.60" W, 0.90" H

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Overview

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover-these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. Kundera’s first since “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.” In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel “the unbearable lightness of being” not only as the consequence of our private actions, but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.

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"Brilliant . . . A work of high modernist playfulness and deep pathos."– Janet Malcolm, "New York Review of Books""Kundera has raised the novel of ideas to a new level of dreamlike lyricism and emotional intensity." – Jim Miller, "Newsweek""Kundera is a virtuoso . . . A work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness."– Elizabeth Hardwick, "Vanity Fair"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0061148520
ISBN-13: 9780061148521
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publish Date: 10/27/2009
Dimensions: 8.10" L, 5.60" W, 0.90" H
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