The Unbearable Lightness Of Being By Milan Kundera

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Tomas’ love for his wife Tereza and his womanising, Tereza’s love of photography and distress due to Tomas’ infidelities, Sabina’s love for art and Tomas, Franz’s love for Sabina and Tomas’ encounters with his estranged son Simon and lastly, Karenin, the dog of Tomas and Tereza, in 1960s-1970s Prague, their lives filled with the lightness of love and sex, is the premise of The Unbearable Lightness Of Being. Their lives in the artistic and intellectual society is woven intrinsically and confusingly with one another.

Considered a masterpiece by Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being gives countless opportunities to the readers for introspection and evaluation of their own lives.