This is the most secret of Milan Kundera's novels. This translation is the first to be fully authorised by the author.

"A whirling dance of a book... Kundera is a self-confessed hedonist in a world beset by politics, and his marvellous novel mingles a hedonist's love of eroticism, fantasy and fun with knife-sharp political satire. A masterpiece." Salman Rushdie