El\Libro de la Risa y el Olvido
by Milan Kundera
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Czech: Kniha smíchu a zapomnění) is a novel by Milan Kundera, published in France in 1979. It is composed of seven separate narratives united by some common themes. The book considers the nature of forgetting as it occurs in history, politics and life in general. The stories also contain elements found in the genre of magic realism. - Wikipedia
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Czech fiction, Translations into English, Fiction, Social conditions, Czechs, English fiction, Translations from Czech, Black humor, 18.56 Czech language and/or literature, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Translated from Czech, Romance literature, Fiction, humorous, general, Literature--translations into english, Pq2671.u47 b6613 1999, Pg5039.21.u6 k613 1999Showing 11 featured editions. View all 42 editions?
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Book of laughter and forgetting
1999, HarperPerennial
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- Perennial Classics ed.
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El\Libro de la Risa y el Olvido
October 1, 1991, French & European Pubns
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0785905421 9780785905424
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Le livre du rire et de l'oubli
1987, Gallimard
in French
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2070378314 9782070378319
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
1983, Penguin, Penguin Books Ltd
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0140064168 9780140064162
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"In February 1948, the Communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to harangue hundreds of thousands of citizens massed in Old Town Square."
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