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The Joke
Milan Kundera
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Description for The Joke
Paperback. This is the first novel by the author of "Immortality", which won "The Independent" Award for Foreign Fiction in 1991. Milan Kundera is also the author of "The Book of Laughter and Fogetting". Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
The first novel by author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being, of which Salman Rushdie wrote: 'It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful novel.'
All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, more than a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Milan Kundera 's work) ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571166930
SKU
9780571166930
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About Milan Kundera
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.
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