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The Joke

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4 out of 5
Based on 8,985 Ratings and 393 Reviews

Book Description


All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera 's work) as what it tru... More
Book Information
PublisherHarperCollins Children's Books
BindingPaperback (25 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages336
ISBN-10006099505X
ISBN-13978-0060995058
Publication Date02/26/1993
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About Milan Kundera (Author) : Milan Kundera is a published author of children's books. Some of the published credits of Milan Kundera include The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Ignorance: A Novel, Immortality, and Don Quixote de l... more
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