Join Faber Members for 10% off your first order.
‘A cult figure.’ Guardian
‘A dark and brilliant achievement.’ Ian McEwan
‘Shamelessly clever … Exhilaratingly subversive and funny.’ Independent
‘A modern classic … As relevant now as when it was first published.’ John Banville
A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon; a man torn between his love for her and his womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals; while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by choices and events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight – and we feel ‘the unbearable lightness of being’.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being encompasses passion and philosophy, infidelity and ideas, the Prague Spring and modern America, political acts and private desires, comedy and tragedy – in fact, all of human existence.
An outstanding classic presented as never before in Faber’s Collectors’ Edition of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and lived in France since 1975. He died in Paris in 2023.
Read More
While best known for his novels, Milan Kundera was also a poet, essayist, critic and philosopher, making him a rare …
While best known for his novels, Milan Kundera was also a poet, essayist, critic and philosopher, making him a rare …
Read an extract from Milan Kundera's essay collection, A Kidnapped West, out now in hardback.
Celebrating our 90th anniversary, Faber staff take on the tricky task of selecting their three favourite Faber books.