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Ignorance
In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally charged theme of exile and creates from it a...
Life is Elsewhere
A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this intriguing early novel by Milan Kundera. He takes us through the young man's fantasies and love affairs...
Amrita
A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconventional extended family that includes an older sister, a woman in her 20s through whose eyes...
Slowness
Slowness was Milan Kundera's first novel written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows him through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated in time by...
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: 'A masterpiece' (Salman Rushdie)
'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme,...
The Joke: 'A very beautiful novel.' (Salman Rushdie)
The Joke , Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country and launched his worldwide literary reputation. In his foreword Kundera explains why this completely...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: 'A dark and brilliant achievement' (Ian McEwan)
In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Being' In a world in which lives are shaped...