num_pages: 10
description: The basis for the world-acclaimed film. Over 700,000 copies of the book sold! Thomas, a top surgeon in Prague, is a master of seduction. After leaving his wife and son, he becomes incapable of emotional involvement. To him women are for pleasure and his relationships with women, described by him as erotic adventures, are fleeting. Life is blissfully simple until Thomas meets young and innocent Tereza who awakens a tenderness he never knew possible. But it is 1968, and when Russian tanks roll into Czechoslovakia, Thomas's world begins to fragment... "A meditation on life, on the erotic, on the nature of men and women and love...full of telling details, truths large and small".
language: English
title: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
titlecomplete: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
characters: Karenin, Tereza, Tomáš, Franz, Sabine
genres: Fiction, Philosophy, Literature, Czech Literature, Classics, Novels, Romance, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 446513
places: Switzerland, Zurich, Prague (Praha), Czech Republic
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Prix Aujourd'hui
publisher: Isis Audio Books