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Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera; Aaron Asher (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: good
In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively ...Show more
Immortality by Milan Kundera
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that cre-ates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agn#65533;s becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that ch ...Show more
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead (Faber Stories) by Milan Kundera
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality. Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to E ...Show more
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
'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 interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance. It is a ...Show more
The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an unexpected and enchanting novel--the culmination of his life's work. Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the ...Show more
The Joke: Faber Modern Classics by Milan Kundera
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, 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 i ...Show more
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places; brilliant and pl ...Show more
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