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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Paperback • 1991 • English

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By Milan Kundera

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

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 lightne...Show more

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ISBN

9780060914653

Publisher

HarperPerennial

Published year

1991

Language

English

Original title

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Format

Paperback

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Paperback · 1984

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Hardcover · 2004

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1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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