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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals—while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel "the unbearable lightness of being."
A major achievement from one of the world's truly great writers, Milan Kundera's magnificent novel of passion and politics, infidelity and ideas, encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, illuminating all aspects of human existence.
Milan Kundera is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves—all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.
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- PublisherFaber and Faber
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 057113209X
- ISBN 13 9780571132096
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages314
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Collectable - Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG/VG 1st printing 1st ed 1984 Faber hardback, unclipped DJ, lovely jacket artwork. Some spotting and yellowing along top edge of page block, with a little yellowing along inside top edge of jacket. Previous label to rear of jacket, a little rubbing and surface fading to upper edge of boards, VG unmarked condition otherwise. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 057113209X. ISBN/EAN: 9780571132096. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 091529. Seller Inventory # 091529
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Book Description first british edition, 1984. hardcover. originally written in french. follows two women, two men, and a dog as their paths cross. set during the 1968 prague spring and in its aftermath. an american film adaptation was released in 1988 with daniel day-lewis, lena olin, and juliette binoche. london: faber and faber. isbn: 057113209X. 5.4 x 8.5". 314 pages. book condition: fine. jacket condition: price unclipped (£9.50). fine. Seller Inventory # 237
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