num_pages: 240
description: Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.
language: English
title: The Book of Laughter & Forgetting
titlecomplete: The Book of Laughter & Forgetting
characters: Mirek, Znedna, Tamina
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, Philosophy, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary, Czech Literature
ratings_count: 47883
places: Prague (Praha)
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Borgo Pr