Alessandra Mura Knihy

This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of life without losing his acute sense of humour. It is one of those great unclassifiable masterpieces that appear only once every twenty years or so. 'It will make you cleverer, maybe even a better lover. Not many novels can do that.' Nicholas Lezard, GQ

Autor v knihe (súčasťou ktorej je aj kratšia novela Extrémna osamelosť) si zvolil silnú, expresívnu tému – problém matkovraždy, aby paradoxne mohol jemne a citlivo ukázať nejednoznačnosť ľudských motivácií a činov.