hardcover, 306 pages
Published Sept. 30, 2004 by Faber & Faber Ltd.
Does life have any value when it happens only once?
Would recommend.
The story takes place mostly in Prague in the 60s/70s, and obviously the communist background is very present.
It's in my category of "book with people in it" - Tomas, a surgeon and womanizer, Tereza, his wife, Sabina, his mistress, Franz, Sabina's lover - to whom I'll add the narrator, who "interrupts" the story on a fairly regular basis to give more explanations or to get into philosophical digressions/discussions.
It's also one of these books that you finish with a kind of urgency, because you know from the first pages that you want to re-read it taking your time, soon. (But you still want to know the story before you do that.)
And maybe the fact that I don't have much to say about it is of the same order that silence following great music is still music.
