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Milan Kundera

The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and lived in France since 1975. He died in Paris in 2023.

Books by Milan Kundera

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An invigorating pair of essays exploring exile, language and national identity from one of Europe’s most celebrated literary stars, the author of The…

89 Words followed by Prague, A Disappearing Poem
Milan Kundera
£12.99
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A provocative and rousing insight into European politics from one of the world’s greatest writers.

A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe
Milan Kundera
£9.99
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A provocative and rousing essay collection from one of Europe’s greatest living writers.

A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe (Hardback)
Milan Kundera
£10.00
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Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.

Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead (Faber Stories)
Milan Kundera
£6.99
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2015 sees the publication of the first new novel from International literary heavyweight, Milan Kundera, in over 12 years.

The Festival of Insignificance
Milan Kundera
£9.99£8.99
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Special edition of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being

An outstanding classic presented as never before in Faber’s Collectors’ Edition of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Collectors’ Edition)
Milan Kundera
£50.00
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A passionate and provocative defence of art from the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Encounter: Essays
Milan Kundera
£12.99£10.99
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Milan Kundera’s The Curtain: Essays is a brilliant exploration of the novel – its history and its art – from one of the…

The Curtain: Essays
Milan Kundera
£14.99
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A classic of literary criticism from one of the world’s greatest novelists and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

The Art of the Novel
Milan Kundera
£10.99£9.99
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Testaments Betrayed by Milan Kundera is an essay written like a novel, shedding light along the way on some of the great…

Testaments Betrayed
Milan Kundera
£10.99£9.99
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Ignorance by Milan Kundera is a literary masterpiece set in contemporary Prague, from the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist and author of The Unbearable…

Ignorance
Milan Kundera
£10.99£8.99
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Milan Kundera’s deliciously witty and entertaining ‘variation’ on Diderot’s novel Jacques le fataliste, in a translation by Simon Callow.

Jacques and his Master
Milan Kundera
£12.99
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Befriend a budding poet and his adoring mother in this seductive early novel – winner of the Prix Médicis – by the author…

Life is Elsewhere
Milan Kundera
£10.99£8.99
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Immortality, by Milan Kundera, the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being: ‘It will make you cleverer, maybe…

Immortality
Milan Kundera
£10.99£8.99
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The first novel by author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being, of which Salman Rushdie wrote: ‘It is impossible to do…

The Joke
Milan Kundera
£9.99£8.99
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Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera is a collection of seven masterful short stories which were banned upon their appearance in 1968.

Laughable Loves
Milan Kundera
£9.99£8.99
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The bestselling modern classic: Milan Kundera’s iconic novel of love and politics in communist Czechoslovakia is ‘a dark and brilliant achievement’…

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
£10.99£8.99
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Identity – by the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist Milan Kundera – is a novel which only provides further evidence of the astonishing…

Identity
Milan Kundera
£10.99£8.99
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A dazzling tragicomic tale from the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Farewell Waltz
Milan Kundera
£9.99
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A heady, existential tale of seduction and romance by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Slowness
Milan Kundera
£10.99£8.99
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera is the most secret of the acclaimed Czech writer’s novels. This new translation…

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
£9.99£8.99

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