NY, Knopf, 1974. The first American edition of the second novel by the author of The Joke and The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Winner of the French Medicis Award as the best foreign novel published that year in France. Small label removal shadow front pastedown and a small bit of faint staining to the spine base; else fine in a very near fine dust jacket with slight wear at the crown. [#004193] SOLD