New York Times Bestseller

""Inspired. . . . Kundera''s most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last.""—Cleveland Plain Dealer

Milan Kundera''s sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert''s Emma or Tolstoy''s Anna, Kundera''s Agns becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera''s supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.

New York Times Bestseller

""Inspired. . . . Kundera''s most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last.""—Cleveland Plain Dealer

Milan Kundera''s sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert''s Emma or Tolstoy''s Anna, Kundera''s Agns becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera''s supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.

New York Times Bestseller

""Inspired. . . . Kundera''s most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last.""—Cleveland Plain Dealer

Milan Kundera''s sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert''s Emma or Tolstoy''s Anna, Kundera''s Agns becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera''s supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.