--- product_id: 267471070 title: "Harper Perennial Ignorance" price: "€ 33.39" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/267471070-harper-perennial-ignorance store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # Harper Perennial Ignorance **Price:** € 33.39 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Harper Perennial Ignorance - **How much does it cost?** € 33.39 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/267471070-harper-perennial-ignorance) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Buy Harper Perennial Ignorance by Kundera, Milan online on desertcart.ae at best prices. ✓ Fast and free shipping ✓ free returns ✓ cash on delivery available on eligible purchase. Review: Kundera can elevate the littlest things—a gesture, a question unasked, a look—into fertile substrates for profound philosophical exploration. Here he can and does—the result is art with a capital A. As with his other late-period works, the book’s brevity is one of its strengths. This is potent, sexy stuff. Review: Milan Kundera: Ignorance. This is a book about immigration. About the fact that one cannot enter the same river twice. The flow of time, like the flow of water, is somewhere else. We cannot leave the present life, return to it after 20 years and expect to continue where we left off. We cannot leave it even for a single minute, because something else starts to unreel, somewhere else, at some different time. The hero returns to the Czech Republic, from where he emigrated 20 years ago. He feels misunderstood, because it seems that nobody is interested in HIS fate and experience. It is not a typical émigré fate, because there are no children. It cannot be helped, an author can write only about his own experience, but in reality, nowadays, émigré writing is mostly about the émigré children, their connection, or the lack of it, with the parents’ country of origin. In 20 years, and in most cases even 30, or 40 years, the main interest is on the next generation, the happiness or sorrow of our children and grandchildren. At the beginning, the telling is philosophical with linguistic information and recalling of famous writers, Czech and foreign, contemporary and ancient. Then the story starts, and towards the end it degenerates into sexual binges, which remind me of Kundera’s early works, e.g. The Laughable Loves. Here is also that haughty attitude towards women, which was not discernible in the Unbearable Lightness of Being. Is it the eternal masculine fear of the unpredictabilityof woman’s influence? In any case, at present we are encountering more and more recapitulations of the émigré experience, by the participants themselves, or their descendants. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #221,220 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,371 in European Literature #2,276 in Contemporary Romance #2,513 in Women's Fiction | | Customer reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (56) | | Dimensions | 20.55 x 13.36 x 1.24 cm | | Edition | Reprint | | ISBN-10 | 0060002107 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0060002107 | | Item weight | 1.05 Kilograms | | Language | English | | Print length | 208 pages | | Publication date | 30 September 2003 | | Publisher | HARPER PERENNIAL | ## Images ![Harper Perennial Ignorance - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61VoemnaSQL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by C***. on 12 November 2023* Kundera can elevate the littlest things—a gesture, a question unasked, a look—into fertile substrates for profound philosophical exploration. Here he can and does—the result is art with a capital A. As with his other late-period works, the book’s brevity is one of its strengths. This is potent, sexy stuff. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by H***A on 19 October 2014* Milan Kundera: Ignorance. This is a book about immigration. About the fact that one cannot enter the same river twice. The flow of time, like the flow of water, is somewhere else. We cannot leave the present life, return to it after 20 years and expect to continue where we left off. We cannot leave it even for a single minute, because something else starts to unreel, somewhere else, at some different time. The hero returns to the Czech Republic, from where he emigrated 20 years ago. He feels misunderstood, because it seems that nobody is interested in HIS fate and experience. It is not a typical émigré fate, because there are no children. It cannot be helped, an author can write only about his own experience, but in reality, nowadays, émigré writing is mostly about the émigré children, their connection, or the lack of it, with the parents’ country of origin. In 20 years, and in most cases even 30, or 40 years, the main interest is on the next generation, the happiness or sorrow of our children and grandchildren. At the beginning, the telling is philosophical with linguistic information and recalling of famous writers, Czech and foreign, contemporary and ancient. Then the story starts, and towards the end it degenerates into sexual binges, which remind me of Kundera’s early works, e.g. The Laughable Loves. Here is also that haughty attitude towards women, which was not discernible in the Unbearable Lightness of Being. Is it the eternal masculine fear of the unpredictabilityof woman’s influence? In any case, at present we are encountering more and more recapitulations of the émigré experience, by the participants themselves, or their descendants. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by R***T on 24 February 2007* This was an account of the move from one world to another and how if affected both the person who left for a better life and those who were left behind. It is a good way to see the world through the eyes of an emigre and the deep changes such a move creates in relationships among friends and family. ## Frequently Bought Together - Ignorance: A Novel - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Immortality (Perennial Classics) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pt/products/267471070-harper-perennial-ignorance](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/267471070-harper-perennial-ignorance) --- *Product available on Desertcart Portugal* *Store origin: PT* *Last updated: 2026-05-18*