Larger	The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Author: Milan Kundera
	Book Information Publisher: Knopf Book Type: Hardcover Members Wishing: 3 Rating: 3 ISBN-13: 9780394508962 - ISBN-10: 0394508963 Publication Date: 10/12/1980 Pages: 228

Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.