title: Ignorance: A Novel
author:  Milan Kundera 
description: Erudite and playful...An impassioned account of the migr as a character on the stage of European history. (Maureen Howard, New York Times Book Review)<br /><br />Milans Kunderas resonant new novel IGNORANCE .[is] wonderfully nuanced . affecting. (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)<br /><br />Moving  There is a painful injustice and inequality to memory, which these encounters beautifully illustrate. (Boston Globe)<br /><br />Literary excellence  [Kunderas] irony and wit are on target, his characters vivid and convincing. (Los Angeles Times Book Review)<br /><br />By far his most successful [novel] since THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING. (Los Angeles Times Book Review)<br /><br />Kundera once more delivers a seductive, intelligent entertainment  [with] elegance and grace. (Washington Post Book World)<br /><br />Nothing short of masterful. (Newsweek)<br /><br />[A] beautifully written tale of desire and loss. (Newark Star Ledger)<br /><br />Elegant  the emotional and intellectual payoff is extraordinary. (Time Out New York)<br /><br />Precise and spare page by page this novel is dazzling. (Montreal Gazette)
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  Ignorance By Milan Kundera
  
  
  "By far his most successful [novel] since The Unbearable Lightness of Being."
  —Los Angeles Times Book Review
  
  
  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."
  
  
  'Erudite and playful___An impassioned account of the emigre as a character on
  the stage of European history." —Maureen Howard, New York Times
  
  
  'Haunting...thunderclaps of insight, absurd metaphors and characters who
  haplessly misunderstand one another collide in his hypnotically repetitive and
  bitingly humorous prose." —San Francisco Chronicle
  
  
  'A voice still masterful in its antennae for'the human condition.'... For
  Milan Kundera, life is plainly elsewhere and where it has always been: in the
  eye o