The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Tamina and her husband flee Czechoslovakia when the communists take power--and then he dies. Exiled in Switzerland, Tamina directs all her efforts toward recovering her dead husband's love letters, to keep her company in a strange land. Kundera uses this novel as a vehicle for his own thoughts on exile, totalitarianism, and politics, but also sex, music, art, and literature. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.