The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Condition:Good hotelier and property mogul has

hotelier and property mogul has maintained a low profile and seldom shed light in public on his business empire or personal life

Carroll's circle was not child his correspondence was enormous

An international bestseller

and partly an appropriation of wealth created elsewhere - of other people's money

devoid of moral

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Condition:Good hotelier and property mogul hasRich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970's. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than just its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed and experienced.