The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in 1984 and was at once hailed by the critics as a contemporary classic.
'There arevovels which are tragic, or entertaining, and this one is both. There are very few that give a fresh perspective on existence, and force the reader to reassess his own life and attitudes. Kundera is vonsistently interesting.'
Sunday Times
Milan Kundera was born in Czechoslovakia. He is the author of Laughable Loves, Life is Elsewhere, The Farewell Party, The Book of Laughterand Forggeting and The Joke.