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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

  • Writer: Kathy Miller
    Kathy Miller
  • Nov 25, 2024
  • 1 min read

Milan Kundera, 1996

Date read: 11/25/24


A woman is sexually assaulted by children, and that's not the weirdest part of the novel. The back cover says, "different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced." Well. It was an experience.

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