The unbearable lightness of being book review

Twenty years later, the novel has established itself as a modern classic. It went on to win the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and quickly became an international bestseller. When The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as "a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review.