Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's AgnÈs becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.
From Publishers WeeklyKundera (whose novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being has sold more than 600,000 copies in paperback) offers brilliant meditations on 20th-century life as he contrasts a comic love triangle involving Goethe with a modern-day trio of fictional Parisians. This BOMC selection spent 12 weeks on PW 's hardcover bestseller list. $100,000 ad/promo.
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Review“Brilliantly mordant…beautifully translated…strong and mesmerizing.”
-- -- New York Times
“Brilliantly mordant…beautifully translated…strong and mesmerizing.”
-- New York Times
“Ingenious witty provocative and formidably intelligent, both a pleasure and a challenge to the reader.” — Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
“Inspired Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel…A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last.” — Susan Miron, * Cleveland Plain Dealer*
“Inspired Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel…A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last.” — Susan Miron, Cleveland Plain Dealer
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