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The unbearable lightness of being

A Czech surgeon, two of his countrywomen, and a Swiss professor, grapple with their sexual and political problems in the difficult years following the 1968 Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.

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  • "A Czech surgeon, two of his countrywomen, and a Swiss professor, grapple with their sexual and political problems in the difficult years following the 1968 Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia."@en
  • "A novel dealing in the public and private events of two couples whose own lives have become interwined."@en
  • "Novel stressing the helplessness of life in a totalitarian state, focusing on the lives and affairs of two couples in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion of 1968."
  • "A young woman obsessed with a man torn between his love for her and his womanizing; one of his mistresses and her faithful lover, these are the two couples whose story ."@en
  • "A young woman obsessed with a man torn between his love for her and his womanizing; one of his mistresses and her faithful lover, these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel by Czech-born Milan Kundera. 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. We feel "the unbearable lightness of being." not only as the consequence of our private actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine."@en
  • "A young woman obsessed with a man torn between his love for her and his womanizing; one of his mistresses and her faithful lover--these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel."@en
  • "A young woman obsessed with a man torn between his love for her and his womanizing; one of his mistresses and her faithful lover--these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel by Czech-born Milan Kundera. 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..."
  • "Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in the sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart."
  • "Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart."

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