In the canon
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1984
- Originally in
- Originally in Czech
- Pages
- Pages 310
A womanising Prague surgeon and the wife he cannot stop betraying live through the Soviet invasion and its exiles, while the novel asks whether a life lived only once has any weight at all.
The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground.
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