Literary Fiction

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Michael Henry Heim

Kundera's philosophical novel follows two couples in 1960s Prague—surgeon Tomas and his wife Teresa, and the artist Sabina with her Swiss lover—as they navigate love, sex, politics, and the weight of existence. The narrative interweaves their stories with meditations on lightness and weight, chance and necessity, body and soul.

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