The Unbearable Lightness of Being Condition:Good twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to

twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament

Braunmuller

destined—with Margaret’s younger sister Mary—to a sisterhood unique in all the world

and often on his belly through the jungle muck

and the assimilation required of immigrants—abandoning their language and culture

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Condition:Good twelve-year-old Amir is desperate toA story of irreconcilable love and infidelities in which Kundera addresses himself to the nature of 20th century being, offering a wide range of brilliant and amusing philosophical speculations. Encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy and was at once hailed by critics as a contemporary classic.