The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Milan Kundera, Paperback

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover--these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel the unbearable lightness of being not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.

Author: Milan Kundera
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 07/05/2005
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.38w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780060932138

Review Citation(s):
Beyond the Cover Author Interv 12/01/1999 pg. 6
People Weekly 12/22/2008 pg. 51