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''A masterpiece'' (Salman Rushdie) by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

''It took the temperature of the age as no other book did. It was the great novel of the end of European Communism: a novel of ideas and eroticism, the surreal and the naturalistic.'' Howard Jacobson

''One is torn between profound pleasure in the novel''s execution and wonder at the pain that inspired it.'' Ian McEwan

One freezing day in 1948, Klement Gottwald addresses Prague, wearing his comrade Clementis'' fur cap - and Communist Czechoslovakia is born. But after being hanged for treason, Clementis is airbrushed out of propaganda photographs. All that remains is a bare wall, and his cap. So begins an unforgettable voyage through seven narratives, interspersed with luminous meditations on politics, philosophy, music and history.

A dissident seeks his first lover - now a Party loyalist - to persuade her to return hi

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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    A Paperback / softback by Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher, Aaron Asher

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 20 May 1996
      ISBN-13 9780571174379
      978-0571174379
      ISBN-10 057117437X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''A masterpiece'' (Salman Rushdie) by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

      ''It took the temperature of the age as no other book did. It was the great novel of the end of European Communism: a novel of ideas and eroticism, the surreal and the naturalistic.'' Howard Jacobson

      ''One is torn between profound pleasure in the novel''s execution and wonder at the pain that inspired it.'' Ian McEwan

      One freezing day in 1948, Klement Gottwald addresses Prague, wearing his comrade Clementis'' fur cap - and Communist Czechoslovakia is born. But after being hanged for treason, Clementis is airbrushed out of propaganda photographs. All that remains is a bare wall, and his cap. So begins an unforgettable voyage through seven narratives, interspersed with luminous meditations on politics, philosophy, music and history.

      A dissident seeks his first lover - now a Party loyalist - to persuade her to return hi

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