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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: 'A masterpiece' (Salman Rushdie)
Milan Kundera
Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting.
320 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | May 20, 1996 |
| ISBN13 | 9780571174379 |
| Publishers | Faber & Faber |
| Pages | 320 |
| Dimensions | 129 × 198 × 21 mm · 230 g |
| Translator | Asher, Aaron |
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