The release date for the English version of 'Slowness' by
Milan Kundera is Apr 1997. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Slowness, the lightest book by Milan Kundera—a divertimento, an opera buffa—is also the first of the writer's literary works to be published in French.
The reader is left feeling both bewildered and captivated as they follow Slowness's narrator through two stories of seduction that take place over two centuries apart and alternate between the sublime and the humorous on a midsummer's night. This libertine dream is veiled in a deep study on modern life: the unspoken link between memory and slowness, the way we have succumbed to the demon of speed and our generation's need to forget. And about "dancers" driven by the need to be seen, for whom existence is nothing more than an unending performance devoid of any sense of closeness or happiness.