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    • - Elegant storytelling and beautiful writing.
      - Loved the allusions to Beethoven.
      - Especially intrigued by the contrast of the characters in light (ha!) of their desire for "lightness" and "weight"

      Just all around a wonderful book.

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  • juvo said on Jun 5, 2008 about the Paperback edition

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Book Description

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.

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Pages: 10, 17, 26, 27, 47, 49, 58, 75, 76, 84, 88, 90, 103, 108, 117, 118, 136, 139, 153, 169, 175, 176, 183, 187, 208, 209, 220, 221, 238, 250, 253, 256, 267, 273, 295, 299, 301
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Paperback 328 Pages
ISBN-10: 0571135390
ISBN-13: 9780571135394
Publisher: Faber Faber Inc
Pub date: Jul 01, 1996
Dimensions: 20 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm Just how big is that?
Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding and Others
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