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Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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Based on 8,186 Ratings and 473 Reviews

Book Description
In one of the finer modern ironies of the life-imitates-art sort, the country that Kundera seemed to be writing about when he talked about Czechoslovakia is, thanks to the latest political redefinitions, no longer precisely there. This kind of disappearance and reappearance is, partly, what Kundera explores in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In this polymorphous work -- now a novel, now autob... More
Book Information
PublisherPenguin Young Readers Group
BindingPaperback (14 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages256
ISBN-100140064168
ISBN-13978-0140064162
Publication Date05/26/1983
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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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About M.H. Heim (Translator) : M.H. Heim is a published translator. Published credits of M.H. Heim include The Joke (King Penguin), The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (King Penguin).
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