For 10 points, name this novel by Milan Kundera.
This work ends at a nudist beach where the lovers Jan and Edwidge share their interpretations of the story of Daphnis and Chloe. One recurring character in this novel has sex with Hugo in an effort to retrieve some notebooks and ends up on an island where she drowns trying to escape from some abusive children. In two autobiographical sections from this work, the author remembers discussing Beethoven's sonata's with his father and writing a horrible horoscope for a newspaper editor. A discussion of Ionesco's The Rhinoceros is included in the first of the two stories titled "The Angels" in this book, and it also includes two stories titled "Lost Letters." Most of the seven stories in this novel are concerned with the lives of characters like Tamina, Madame Raphael, and Mirek in Soviet occupied Prague. For 10 points, name this novel by Milan Kundera.
This work ends at a nudist beach where the lovers Jan and Edwidge share their interpretations of the story of Daphnis and Chloe.
The Book of {Laughter} and {Forgetting} [or {Kniha smichu} a {zapomneni}]