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 ...

Two simultaneous stories, both taking place in a French chateau two centuries apart, detail the sexual encounters of an eighteenth-century couple and the absence of sex for a twentieth-century married couple and compares the 'morning ...

It is hard to imagine anything more chilling and profound than Kundera's apparent lightheartedness.''Elizabeth PochodaIN this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central Euroepean spa town, eight characters are swept up in ...

A major figure in twentieth-century literature presents a best-selling look at love, eroticism, loss, and the depths of the human soul as a Parisian woman receives letters from a secret admirer that begin to affect her relationship wi...