The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060152583
- ISBN 13
- 9780060152581
- Seller
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Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
first edition U.S. first printing hardcover in dust jacket; no prior owner marks; minimal age tone to text pages, a small random spot of soil to text block fore-edge; tight bind; clean 1/3 cloth cover, vivid titling; dj has edge wear: some compression, little edge rub, few small top edge nicks, a short tear top back panel corner near joint, small front flap top corner crease; flap price present; scarce B31
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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- Bookseller
- DrPanglossBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12838
- Title
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Author
- Milan Kundera
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition U.S.
- ISBN 10
- 0060152583
- ISBN 13
- 9780060152581
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
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