num_pages: 312
description: Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their laughter and forgetting.
language: English
title: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
titlecomplete: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
characters: Mirek, Tamina, Znedna
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Philosophy, Literature, Czech Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 47893
places: Prague (Praha)
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Faber and Faber