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

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      A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. This is the author's seventh novel. His previous works include "The Joke", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". He has written one play, "Jacques and his Master".

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      Product ID:9780571144563
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:Immortality
      Subtitle:'An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere' (Salman Rushdie)
      Authors:Author: Milan Kundera, Peter Kussi
      Page Count:400
      Subjects:Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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      A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. This is the author's seventh novel. His previous works include "The Joke", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". He has written one play, "Jacques and his Master".

      The New York Times bestseller by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

      ''Like all great writers, Kundera leaves indelible marks on his readers’ imaginations.'' Salman Rushdie

      From a playful gesture between an old woman in a swimming pool and a youthful lifeguard springs the heroine of a novel: Agnès. In the course of her daily life - Saturday chores, saunas, lunch in the hectic Paris streets - memories arise of her dead father, an unexpected widower. Their conversations flood back, and Agnès realises that her secret inheritance was his way of granting her freedom. As she mentally revisits her childhood, from formative loves to her intense relationship with her sister, her past casts light on her present: her marriage, daughter, and eventual death.

      Exploring identity and existence, eroticism and modernity - with cameos from Goethe, Dali, Hemingway, and beyond - Immortality illuminates the nature of selfhood with inimitable wit, grace and intellectual nimbleness.

      ''A serial feast, a banquet for the brain.'' Observer

      ''A joy to read. Wise, rueful, whimsically philosophical, Kundera teases the reader with provocations and paradoxes.'' Evening Standard


      Imprint Name:Faber & Faber
      Publisher Name:Faber & Faber
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2000-08-21

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      Weight314 g
      Dimensions198 × 127 × 27 mm