A unique look at the craft of writing from a bestelling master of storytelling.

Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. 

This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of life, without losing his acute sense of humour. 

Slowness was milan kunderas first novel written in french disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows him through a midsummers night.

In Ignorance, Milan Kundera takes up the complex and emotionally charged theme of exile and creates from it a literary masterpiece.

On holiday, a man and his girlfriend pretend she is a hitchhiking stranger – but their game soon makes them strangers to each other.

Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man’s alienation – and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting.

Reissued to mark the 40th anniversary of Rushdie’s masterpiece, this edition carries a new introduction written for the occasion