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Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the new novel from Milan Kundera. "Enchanting...it explores all aspects of a declining civilisation without taking any of them too seriously...In this novel of Flaubertian seduction, free of blame and guilt, insignificance is the very essence of life." (La Repubblica). Casting light on the most ...Show more
Immortality by Milan Kundera
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that cre-ates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agn#65533;s becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that ch ...Show more
Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
$27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road--only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to ...Show more
The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The classic of literary criticism from one of the world's greatest novelists In seven independent, but closely related chapters, Milan Kundera presents his personal conception of the European novel, which he describes as 'an art born of the laughter of God'.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
$25.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance. It is a ...Show more
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places; brilliant and pl ...Show more
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