If you sometimes find Kundera's books too heavy, this book will be a change of flavour. Also with 7 short stories, Kundera humourously write about erotic relationships between the characters, the sort of mind games that lovers play, the facade we put on when we try to impress someone and how sometimes we end up looking like a clown. This book is also Kundera's last book written in Czech and this is his last connection with his hometown, Prague. It is quite a transformation to see how the author gradually comes to terms with the Czech history from a humour-point-of-view.
