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"It is hard to imagine anything more chilling and profound than Kundera's apparent lightheartedness."'Elizabeth PochodaIN this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central Euroepean spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman... read more

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First Sentence

Autumn has arrived and the trees are turning yellow, red, brown; the small spa town in its pretty valley seems to be surrounded by flames.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Milan Kundera (Author)
  2. Aaron Asher

Popular Tags

  1. contemporary fiction
  2. czech
  3. fiction
  4. kundera
  5. novel 
 

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