The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera (author)

Translated by Michael Henry Heim

A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon: a man torn between his love for her and his womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals, while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by choices and events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight - and we feel 'the unbearable lightness of being'.

Kundera's classic provoked a whole generation, encompassing passion and philosophy, body and soul, infidelity and ideas, the Prague Spring and modern America, political acts and private desires, comedy and tragedy - in fact, all of human existence.

The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975. He died in Paris in 2023.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faber & Faber; Main - Re-issue edition (21 Aug. 2000)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780571135394
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.7 x 12.9 x 1.11 cm