Milan Kundera

Philip Roth

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Rhode Island

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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Michael Henry Heim

Aaron Asher

Massachusetts

Commissioned and closely monitored by Milan Kundera himself, this new translation brings a clarity and unmatched fidelity to the author's original text. Widely held as a work of genius, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that first brought him to the forefront of the international literary scene. Rich in stories, characters and imaginative range, it was written while Kundera was still forbidden to publish in his home country of Czechoslovakia, which was then behind the Iron Curtain. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of modern existence -- from the posthumous erasure of enemies of communism from the historical record, to the subtle agony of the fading memory of a lost love, to the bizarre sexlessnes of modern promiscuity -- are explored with boldness, subversive humor and the magical power of fiction.

Category - Fiction / Drama

Format - Paperback

Condition - Good

Listed - 6 months ago

Views - 12

Wishes - 2

Ships From - Rhode Island

Est. Publication Date - Mar 1987

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