Immortality

<p><strong><em>New York Times</em> Bestseller</strong></p><p><strong>Inspired. . . . Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances beguiles and charms us from first page to last. -- <em>Cleveland Plain Dealer</em></strong></p><p>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 Agnès 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.</p>