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Book review: The Festival of Insignificance

MILAN Kundera’s first novel in 14 years is a short, amusing, and thought-provoking meditation on the nature of insignificance.

Book review: The Festival of Insignificance

Sat, 27 Jun, 2015 - 01:00

Review: Billy O’Callaghan

Milan Kundera

(translated by Linda Asher)

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