Unbearable Lightness of Being, the

Unbearable Lightness of Being, the

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.<br /> <br /> In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight - and we feel &#39;the unbearable lightness of being&#39;.<br /> <br /> A masterpiece by one of the world&#39;s greatest writers, Milan Kundera&#39;s 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.