Ok, here I am with a finished book and no idea what to say about it. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" was interesting. I'm sure I should have gotten more out of it than I did. What I did get out of it was this: things happen. Maybe not the way we want them to or the way that we think we want them to, but they do happen. Tomas and Tereza's relationship is a strained one. He sees her as fragile, she sees him as a brute, but they love and care for each other very much. Sabina and Franz's relationship is filled with misunderstandings. They each think they know the other so well. Their lack of open, honest communication leads to one sad event after another.
The book delves deeply into these 2 relationships as well as 2 others (Tomas/Sabina & Franz/Marie-Claude). Though really there is also Tomas and Tereza's (separate) relationships with their dog, Karenin. If anyone reading this can help me understand this book better, please e-mail me (kylee (dot) books (at) gmail (dot) com). I think I'll hang on to this one for awhile, maybe re-read it. SparkNotes
Synopsis
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.
Next up: "Murder Of A Snake In The Grass (Scumble River, Bk 4)" by Denise Swanson
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This book was also reviewed:
- at My Own Little Reading Room
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