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The Joke

By Milan Kundera

The Joke Contemporary literature

The Joke

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The debut by author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being, of which Salman Rushdie said: ''It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful novel.'' '' A funny, sad, gripping, wise, marvellous book.'' Sunday Times Ludvik returns to his hometown a bitter man with a single aim: to do unto others what has been done to him. Expelled from the Communist Party as a student for a youthful joke, he has spent years exiled to a bleak labour camp. awaiting his chance for revenge on those who betrayed him - and one-time friends, lovers and comrades soon become entwined in his machinations as he devises the perfect plan . . . Kundera''s iconoclastic debut novel was a sensation during the Prague Spring: later banned, it launched his worldwide literary reputation, and its passionate exploration of humour, censorship and individualism is even more powerful over half a century later.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
336
Release Date:
2000-08-21
Publication Date:
2000-08-21
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0571166938
ISBN13:
9780571166930
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
279 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
29 cm

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