A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. This is the author's seventh novel. His previous works include The Joke , The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being . He has written one play, Jacques and his Master .

A novel of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, which embraces all aspects of human existence, and addresses the nature of twentieth-century 'Being'.

Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting.

Thomas Carnacki is a ghost finder, an Edwardian psychic detective, investigating a range of terrifying hauntings. This collection of his adventures features Carnacki encountering spine-chilling phenomena as 'The Whistling Room', the dangers of the phantom steed in 'The Horse of the Invisible' and the demons from the outside world in 'The Hog'.