<p><b>A dazzling collection of stories - originally banned in 1968 Prague - by a ''</b><b>magnificent short-story writer'' (<i>NYT</i>) and author of classic <i>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</i>.</b><br><br><b>¿Kundera is a self-confessed hedonist in a world beset by politics . . . Marvellous.¿ </b>Salman Rushdie <br><b>''Kundera''s achievement has been to bring both private life and political life into one comic framework.</b>'' Ian McEwan<br><br>On holiday, a man and his girlfriend pretend she is a hitchhiking stranger - but their game soon makes them strangers to each other.<br>One young man reconnects with his grieving former lover, only to be shocked by her ageing body.<br>Two friends embark on an obsessive mission to seduce as many women as possible in the Eternal Chase.<br>A teacher fakes piety to seduce a devoutly religious girl: then jilts her and yearns for God. <br>In these celebrated stories, Kundera probes our darkest erotic impulses and most destructive sexual fantasi