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Informationen zum Autor The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975. He died in Paris in 2023. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Peter Kussi had a distinguished career in the field of Czech literature as a scholar, editor and translator. He taught Czech language and literature at Columbia for many years and is known for his translation of the works of Milan Kundera, among them the novel Immortality which won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He also edited an anthology of the works of Karel Capek. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Peter Kussi had a distinguished career in the field of Czech literature as a scholar, editor and translator. He taught Czech language and literature at Columbia for many years and is known for his translation of the works of Milan Kundera, among them the novel Immortality which won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He also edited an anthology of the works of Karel Capek. Klappentext A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. This is the author's seventh novel. His previous works include "The Joke", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". He has written one play, "Jacques and his Master". Vorwort The New York Times bestseller by the author of legendary cult classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Zusammenfassung A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. This is the author's seventh novel. His previous works include "The Joke", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". He has written one play, "Jacques and his Master".
