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'A cult figure.' Guardian 'A dark and brilliant achievement.' Ian
McEwan 'Shamelessly clever ... Exhilaratingly subversive and
funny.' Independent 'A modern classic ... As relevant now as when
it was first published. ' John Banville A young woman is in love
with a successful surgeon; a man torn between his love for her and
his womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her
life as a series of betrayals; while her other lover stands to lose
everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives
are shaped by choices and events, and everything occurs but once,
existence seems to lose its substance and weight - and we feel 'the
unbearable lightness of being'. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
encompasses passion and philosophy, infidelity and ideas, the
Prague Spring and modern America, political acts and private
desires, comedy and tragedy - in fact, all of human existence. What
readers are saying: 'Some books change your mind, some change your
heart, the very best change your whole world ... A mighty piece of
work, that will shape your life forever.' 'One of the best books
I've ever read ... A book about love and life, full of surprises.
Beautiful.' 'This book is going to change your life ... It
definitely leaves you with a hangover after you're done reading.'
'A must read - loved it, such beautiful observations on life, love
and sexuality.' 'Kundera writes about love as if in a trance so the
beauty of it is enchanting and dreamy ... Will stay with you
forever.' 'A beautiful novel that helps you understand life better
... Loved it.' 'One of those rare novels full of depth and insight
into the human condition ... Got me reading Camus and Sartre.' 'One
of the best books I have ever read ... An intellectual love story
if ever there was one.'
In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number
Devil, who leads him to discover the amazing world of numbers:
infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, numbers that
magically appear in triangles, and numbers that expand without end.
As we dream with him, we are taken further and further into
mathematical theory, where ideas eventually take flight, until
everyone -- from those who fumble over fractions to those who solve
complex equations in their heads -- winds up marveling at what
numbers can do.
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The Joke (Paperback, Main)
Milan Kundera; Translated by Michael Henry Heim
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The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following
in his own country and launched his worldwide literary reputation.
In his foreword Kundera explains why this completely revised
translation is the definitive edition of his work. 'It is
impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom
of this very beautiful novel. The author of The Joke is clearly one
of the best to be found anywhere.' Salman Rushdie, Observer
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover--these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. 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. Hence, 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.
Adventures in Immediate Irreality, the masterwork of Max Blecher a
magnificent writer who brings to mind Bruno Schulz paints in vivid
colors the crises of irreality that plagued him in his youth, eerie
mirages wherein he would glimpse future events, glowing glimpses
unsettling in every way. In gliding chapters that move with a
peculiar dream logic of their own, this memoiristic novella
sketches the tremulous, frightening and exhilarating awakenings of
a very young man."
The most famous collection of short fiction by acclaimed
Yugoslavian writer Danilo Kis. In these nine stories Kis depicts
human relationships, encounters, landscapes--the multitude of
details that make up a human life. Kis combines fiction and history
in postmodern style, and in a postscript provides fascinating
historical backgrounds and other notes for the reader that add
interest and context. An enduring classic of Slavic literary
fiction.
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Prague Tales (Paperback)
Jan Neruda; Translated by Michael Henry Heim
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Collection of Jan Neruda's intimate, wry, bitter-sweet stories of
life among the inhabitants of Mala Strana, the Little Quarter of
nineteenth century Prague. These finely tuned and varied vignettes
established Neruda as the quintessential Czech nineteenth century
realist, the Charles Dickens of a Prague becoming ever more aware
of itself as a Czech, rather than an Austrian city. Prague Tales is
a classic story whose influence has been acknowledged by
generations of Czech writers, including Ivan Klima, who has
contributed an introduction to this new translation.
First published in 1973, this collection of Chekhov's
correspondence is widely regarded as the best introduction to this
great Russian writer. Weighted heavily toward the correspondence
dealing with literary and intellectual matters, this extremely
informative collection provides fascinating insight into Chekhov's
development as a writer. Michael Henry Heim's excellent translation
and Simon Karlinsky's masterly headnotes make this volume an
essential text for anyone interested in Chekhov.
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