“We’ve known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There’s been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously.”

Milan Kundera's final (or so it appears) novel is a short tale of five friends. Each of these characters have delicately carved, yet ridiculous stories. The story of the navel: the sign of once being held at birth and to be torn apart from that bond, is frequently referred to as the center of female seductive power. Whiling through these pages, you'll meet a waiter who pretends to speak Pakistani, a man feigning a terminal illness, an out of work actor and many more such interesting beings. The tale portrays in minute themes the concepts of "erotic potential", "mother-son relationships, and how overthinking and such leads to "insignificance".





Feel free to read it as a swan-song from the writer.