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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is a novel by Milan Kundera, published in 1979 and comprising seven parts. Unusually, the parts are not part of a single narrative progression; yet they are united by common themes. In particular, the book considers the nature of forgetting as it appears in history, politics and life in general.