The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

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Book name:	The Unbearable Lightness of Being (2024)
Category:	Fiction
Author:	Milan Kundera
Pages:	314 pages
ISBN13:	0571224385
ISBN:	0571224385
Language:	English
Publication data:	Oct. 27, 2009, 7 a.m.

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.

About the author

Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. He went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.

Kundera wrote in Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; people therefore consider these original works as not translations. He is best known for his novels, including The Joke (1967), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting… Read more