The major work by Milan Kundera in a beautiful new edition - all covers drawn by the author himself. Tamina lives in Parisian exile, her husband is dead. The memories of her great love and her homeland begin to fade. So she tries to bring the love letters from Prague to Paris to revive the past. On the other hand, a Prague dissident must find and destroy letters to his beloved, a communist, as they could compromise him and destroy his image as a hero of the resistance. Milan Kundera tells with great wit and overwhelming charm about the different ways of forgetting.