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Immortality: 'An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere' (Salman Rushdie)

Immortality: 'An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere' (Salman Rushdie)

by Milan Kundera (Author), Milan Kundera (Author), Peter Kussi (Translator)

Synopsis

A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. His previous works include 'The Joke', 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting' and 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 400
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 21 Aug 2000
ISBN 10: 057114456X
ISBN 13: 9780571144563
Book Overview: Immortality, by Milan Kundera, the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being: 'It will make you cleverer, maybe even a better lover. Not many novels can do that.' Nicholas Lezard
 Prizes: Winner of Independent Foreign Fiction Award 1991.

Media Reviews
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 Brilliantly mordant...beautifully translated...strong and mesmerizing. -- New York Times
Author Bio
The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, The Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves -- all originally in Czech. His more recent novels , Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.