NMLP P-021950 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera · Alfred A. Knopf (New York) · 1980

English true first is the Alfred A. Knopf (New York) 1980 hardcover, translated by Michael Henry Heim, with 'First American Edition' stated on the copyright page under the Borzoi imprint (Knopf used the stated edition statement rather than a number line)

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-021950 for "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" by Milan Kundera (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-021950, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).