cover image Love and Garbage

Love and Garbage

Ivan Klima. Vintage Books USA, $15 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-679-73755-1

Klima wrote this sensuously romantic novel on the timeless theme of the clandestine love affair in response to the misogyny and cynicism he perceived in his countryman Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. (Apr.)