Life Is Elsewhere

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First American Edition, 1st Printing.

Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 217 x 148 mm), 289 pages, in greenish-gray cloth, titles to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket.

Milan Kundera's novel featuring a self-deluded poet named Jaromil, who likes poetry and women and sometimes can't decide which he likes more. Like much of Kundera's early work, the action takes place in Communist-era Czechoslovakia. Translated from the Czech by Peter Kussi.

Kundera's novel won the 1973 Medicis award in France for best foreign novel. Gallimard published the French edition as "La vie est ailleurs."

CONDITION: Slight bumping to top outside corner of front board, some toning to extremities, in a bright dust jacket with light toning to the edges of the flaps and a slight crease to the front flap. An attractive copy. Near Fine/Near Fine.