Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera

ISBN 10: 0060912529 / ISBN 13: 9780060912529

Published by HarperCollins Publishers June 1985, 1985

About this Item

Reader's creases to both sides the spine. Edgewear and creasing to cover. Unmarked but tanning pages. All Orders Shipped With Tracking And Delivery Confirmation Numbers.

Seller Inventory # 452011

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers June 1985
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060912529
• ISBN 13: 9780060912529
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • NOVEL TRADE SIZE

About this title

Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

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.