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Laughable Loves eBook

by Milan Kundera
language: english
Publisher: Faber & Faber, October of 2020 ‧
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A dazzling collection of stories - originally banned in 1968 Prague - by a 'magnificent short-story writer' (NYT) and author of classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.'A self-confessed hedonist in a world beset by politics . . . Marvellous.' Salman Rushdie'Kundera's achievement has been to bring both private life and political life into one comic framework.' Ian McEwanOn holiday, a man and his girlfriend pretend she is a hitchhiking stranger - but their game soon makes them strangers to each other.One young man reconnects with his grieving former lover, only to be shocked by her ageing body.Two friends embark on an obsessive mission to seduce as many women as possible in the Eternal Chase.A teacher fakes piety to seduce a devoutly religious girl: then jilts her and yearns for God.In these celebrated stories, Kundera probes our darkest erotic impulses and most destructive sexual fantasies - while seducing us with his graceful, whimsical prose.

Laughable Loves

by Milan Kundera

Property Description
ISBN: 9780571367665
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date: October of 2020
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > Fiction > Fiction
eBooks in English > Fiction > Short stories
EAN: 9780571367665
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera (Brno, 1 de abril de 1929 – Paris, 11 de julho de 2023). Em 1975 fixou residência em Paris, tendo, em 1981, adotado a nacionalidade francesa. Autor de uma vasta obra, que abrange o romance, o ensaio e a poesia, é considerado um dos mais importantes escritores do século XX. A Insustentável Leveza do Ser é a sua obra mais aclamada pelos leitores e pela crítica, e em muito contribuiu para o tornar num autor reconhecido internacionalmente. Entre outros, foram atribuídos a Milan Kundera o Prémio Médicis (1973), o Prémio Mondello (1978), o Prémio Common Wealth (1981), o Prémio Jerusalém (1985) e o Prémio Independent de Literatura Estrangeira (1991).

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