Out of print since 1987, "Life Is Elsewhere" is available again in an outstanding new translation. Kundera's epic of adolescence tenderly erodes such sacrosanct values as childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry, in a "remarkable portrait of an artist as a young man" ("Newsweek").
Sedem poviedok od Milana Kunderu, ktorých námetom je láska postavená do komických súvislostí, alebo vlastne to, čo ľudia v komických súvislostiach považujú za pokus o milostný vzťah. Kniha Smiešne lásky obsahuje poviedky Sestrička mojich sestričiek, Zlaté jablko večnej túžby, Zvestovateľ, Falošný autostop, Starí mŕtvi nech ustúpia mladým mŕtvym. Podľa dvoch poviedok boli natočené filmy: Nikto sa nebude smiať (réžia Hynek Bočan, 1965) a Ja, trúchlivý boh (réžia Antonín Kachlík, 1969)
'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance. It is a book about laughter and about forgetting, about forgetting and about Prague, about Prague and about the angels.' The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the most secret of Kundera's novels. This new translation is the first to be fully authorized by Milan Kundera. 'An urgent, stunning book; it teaches us that when we die, what we lose is not the future but the past. I think of Kundera as the great modern descendant of Gogol and Kafka.' Carlos Fuentes
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being , Milan Kundera tells the story of 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. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflections, and a variety of styles to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers.
Set in the not-too-distant past, this comic and exuberantly lustful tale by the author of The Miracle Game is also a savage parody of life under foreign occupation. The conscripts of a Czech battalion prepare themselves for inevitable war with the US - using unconventional tactics.