A new edition of Kundera's seminal, Prague-set novel. Salman Rushdie praised it for combining 'a hedonist's love of eroticism, fantasy and fun with knife-sharp political satire'. von Kundera, Milan

Set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, Farewell Waltz poses the most serious questions with a blasphemous lightness that makes us see that the modern world has deprived us even of the right to tragedy.In this dark farce of a...

A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals?while her other lover, earnest,...

The effect is at its most acute in a couple where our existence is given meaning by our perception of a lover, and theirs of us. With his astonishing skill at building on and out from the significant moment, Kundera has placed such a...