The debut by author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being, of which Salman Rushdie said It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful novel. A funny, sad, gripping, wise, marvellous book. Sunday TimesLudvik returns to his hometown a bitter man with a single aim to do unto others what has been done to him. Expelled from the Communist Party as a student for a youthful joke, he has spent years exiled to a bleak labour camp. awaiting his chance for revenge on those who betrayed him and onetime friends, lovers and comrades soon become entwined in his machinations as he devises the perfect plan . . . Kunderas iconoclastic debut novel was a sensation during the Prague Spring later banned, it launched his worldwide literary reputation, and its passionate exploration of humour, censorship and individualism is even more powerful over half a century later.

Binding: Paperback;336 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 394 g; Dimensions: 197 x 127 x 23

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