THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING ** True First Edition, First Printing ** Signed by the Author

Milan Kundera

ISBN 10: 0060152583 / ISBN 13: 9780060152581

Published by Harper & Row, NY, 1984

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING ** True First Edition, First Printing ** Signed by the Author
• Publisher: Harper & Row, NY
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060152583
• ISBN 13: 9780060152581
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in the sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart

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.