Author: Milan Kundera
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, identity
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0060930314
ISBN-13: 9780060930318
The reader sits down to dinner with Chantal, who is waiting for her lover, Jean-Marc, in a seaside hotel. While waiting to be served, she overhears two waitresses discuss the unexplained disappearance of a family man. This blatant foreshadowing posits the central question of Identity: what we think we know about our intimates is predicated on projection, primal yearnings, and the deep denial of life’s impermanence. Identity reads like a musical exercise; its playing out of themes is reminiscent of a fugue. An image dropped into the narrative will be revisited from a different vantage poi
Author: Alison Bing
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Keywords: milan
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1740597591
ISBN-13: 9781740597593
Like a catwalk model, Milan struts confidently on the world stage. And why not? It is Italy’s most dynamic city, a centre of high fashion, fast finance and fabulous food where visitors can marvel at the aerodynamic engineering of the Fuksas ’glass sails’ and then raid the racks of the Quadrilatero d’Oro. To land on your designer-clad feet be sure to pack Best of Milan. --NIP & TUCK - Milan’s cityscape is being reinvented by a stellar list of architects. Learn about the latest Libeskind or Zaha Hadid project with our detailed architectural coverage. --PAST & PRESEN
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Publisher: teNeues
Keywords: milan, shops, cool
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2005-05-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 3832790225
ISBN-13: 9783832790226
One of a new series of authoritative guides teNeues is introducing this season, Cool Shops Milan takes the reader on a tour of the best stores and boutiques in this dynamic, fashion-conscious city. While there are several famous shops included in this selection (Emilio Pucci, Paul Smith, Jimmy Choo), each is distinguished by more than the items or products it sells. The editors also highlight exemplary architecture and interior design with lavish color photographs and emphasize as well the appeal of smaller, one-of-a-kind shops. Attractively designed to fit into any handbag, backpack, or brief
Author: Milan Kundera
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, ignorance
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0060002107
ISBN-13: 9780060002107
Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence "their memories no longer match."
Author: Milan Kundera
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, slowness
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1997-05-21
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0060928417
ISBN-13: 9780060928414
Two tales of seduction, separated by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic in this, Milan Kundera’s lightest novel. In the 18th century, the marvelous Madame de T. summons a young nobleman to her chamber and gives him an unforgettable lesson in the art of seduction and the pleasures of love. In the same chat at the end of the 20th century, a hapless intellectual experiences a rather less successful night. Distracted by his desire to be the center of attention at a convention of entomologists, Vincent misses the opportunity to be with a be
Author: Jacques Casanova
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: milan
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1419134264
ISBN-13: 9781419134265
Clementine had conquered me in the space of a few hours. True, I was an inflammable subject, but hitherto no beauty had committed such ravages upon me in so short a time. I did not doubt of success, and I confess that there was a certain amount of vanity in this assurance; but at the same time I was modest, for I knew that at the slightest slip the enterprise would miscarry.
Author: Nick Sturley
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: milan
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2006-07-06
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 141201350X
ISBN-13: 9781412013505
A transgression against the natural rights of Deaf people to use and develop sign language - the infamous Milan 1880 Revolution - has created a turbulent legacy which exerts its influence to this day. There would never again be another Milan 1880. Or, so we thought... As the story begins, an unknown force calling itself MILAN inexplicably transforms the entire British Deaf people into hearing people, and sign language is reduced to near extinction. Two of the Deaf survivors, JOHN McCALVIN and his ladyfriend, DAWN WINTERS, soon find themselves in fear of Milan’s three hunters, led by the
