Richmond Hoxie
Author
Pub. Date
1987, c1980
Description
"An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level-political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." -Newsweek
"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius." -New York Times
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative...
5) Ignorance
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Description
"Kundera once more delivers a seductive, intelligent entertainment … [with] elegance and grace." - Washington Post Book World
"Nothing short of masterful." - Newsweek
A brilliant novel set in contemporary Prague, by one of the most distinguished writers of our time.
A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread...
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Description
"Irresistible. . . . Slowness is an ode to sensuous leisure, to the enjoyment of pleasure rather than just the search for it." - Mirabella
Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French.
Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than...