Immortality 'An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere' (Salman Rushdie)

<p> <b>The <i>New York Times </i>bestseller by the author of legendary cult classic <i>The Unbearable Lightness of Being.</i> </b> <br> <br> 'Like all great writers, Kundera leaves indelible marks on his readers' imaginations.' <b> Salman Rushdie </b> <br> <br> <b>From a playful gesture between an old woman in a swimming pool and a youthful lifeguard springs the heroine of a novel: Agnès. In the course of her daily life - Saturday chores, saunas, lunch in the hectic Paris streets - memories arise of her dead father, an unexpected widower. Their conversations flood back,</b> and <b>Agnès</b> <b>realises that her secret inheritance was his way of granting her freedom. As s</b> <b>he mentally revisits her childhood, from formative loves to her intense relationship with her sister, her past casts light on her present: her marriage, daughter, and eventual death.</b> <br> <br> <b>Exploring identity and existence, eroticism and modernity - with cameos from Goethe, Dali, Hemingway, and beyond - <i>Immortality </i>illuminates the nature of selfhood with inimitable wit, grace and intellectual nimbleness. </b> <br> <br> 'A serial feast, a banquet for the brain.' <i> <b>Observer</b> </i> <br> <br> 'A joy to read. Wise, rueful, whimsically philosophical, Kundera teases the reader with provocations and paradoxes.' <i> <b>Evening Standard</b> </i> </p>