The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Kundera, Milan
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/FIne
- ISBN 10
- 0060152583
- ISBN 13
- 9780060152581
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Row, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/FIne. Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. Signed by Kundera, Philip Kaufman, Derek de Lint, and Jean-Claude Carrière on pasted- and laid-in bookplates. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($15.95), lightly rubbed at the edges, a few small chips at the bottom. Tan buckram with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Kundera's classic novel set in the the 1968 Prague Spring. Adapted into the 1988 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
Synopsis
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), by Milan Kundera, is a philosophic novel about a man and his two women and their lives in the Prague Spring of the Czechoslovak Communist period in 1968. Although written in 1982, the novel was not published until two years later, in France; the Czech: Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí and French: l'Insoutenable légèreté de l'être titles are the more common worldwide.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6296
- Title
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Author
- Kundera, Milan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- FIne
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060152583
- ISBN 13
- 9780060152581
- Publisher
- Harper and Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Czech Literature, Prague, Books to Film, Communism
Terms of Sale
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Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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Woodstock, Illinois
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