Kundera, Milan. <br/><br/>
The unbearable lightness of being  
/ Milan Kundera ; translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  HarperCollins,  2004. 
 - 314 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Twentieth-anniversary edition"--Jkt.  "First published in hardcover in the United States in 1984 by Harper & Row. This hardcover reissue published in 2004"--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/> In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of two couples, a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing, and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.<br/><br/>This magnificent novel, now available in a beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition, is a story of passion and politics, infidelity and ideas, and encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, illuminating all aspects of human existence. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780060597184 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004557638 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Not so classic (English) 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Novels
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PG5039.21.U6  / N413 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>891.8/635