โ Scribed by Kundera, Milan
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Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnรs becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.
Kundera (whose novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being has sold more than 600,000 copies in paperback) offers brilliant meditations on 20th-century life as he contrasts a comic love triangle involving Goethe with a modern-day trio of fictional Parisians. This BOMC selection spent 12 weeks on PW 's hardcover bestseller list. $100,000 ad/promo.
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"Brilliantly mordant...beautifully translated...strong and mesmerizing."
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"Brilliantly mordant...beautifully translated...strong and mesmerizing."
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_"Ingenious witty provocative and formidably intelligent, both a pleasure and a challenge to the reader." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World _
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__"Inspired Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel...A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last." --Susan Miron, * Cleveland Plain Dealer *
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__"Inspired Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel...A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last." --Susan Miron, Cleveland Plain Dealer ____
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