| Edition |
Deluxe ed |
| Descript |
314 s. ; 2.2 cm |
| Series |
Harper Perennial modern classics
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Harper Perennial modern classics
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| Note |
Lightness and weight -- -Soul and body -- Words misunderstood -- Soul and body -- Lightness and weight -- The grand march -- Kerenin's smile |
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Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart |
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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, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel "the unbearable lightness of being." |
| Subject |
Surgeons -- Czechoslovakia -- Fiction
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Man-woman relationships -- Czechoslovakia -- Fiction
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Man-woman relationships.
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Surgeons.
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Czechoslovakia
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Fiction.
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Romaner
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Skönlitteratur
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Fantasy
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| Classmark |
891.8/635
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| Alt Auth |
Heim, Michael Henry
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9780061148521 |
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