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    The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: 'A masterpiece' (Salman Rushdie)
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    The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: 'A masterpiece' (Salman Rushdie)

    Written by Milan Kundera

    Narrated by Richmond Hoxie

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    About this audiobook

    Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s.

    Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analysed and experienced.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFaber & Faber
    Release dateSep 6, 2012
    ISBN9780571308453
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    The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: 'A masterpiece' (Salman Rushdie)
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    Milan Kundera

    The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929 - 2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves—all originally in Czech. His later novels, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance, and The Festival of Insignificance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

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