Kundera, Milan — Slowness

New York, HarperCollins, 1996. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First English Edition, being translated from the original French by Linda Asher. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, clearly unread. This Czech writer's "lightest novel, a 'divertimento', an 'opera buffa', with, as the author himself says, "not a single serious word in it"; then, too, it is the first of his novels to have been written in French." The publisher's blurb adds that this is a story of two seductions separated by 200 years - set in the same chateau in the 18th and late 20th centuries. 156 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,