New York: Harper Collins, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This Czech writer's "lightest novel, a 'divertimento', an 'opera buffa', with, as the author himself says, "not a single serious word in it"; then, too, it is the first of his novels to have been written in French." A story of two seductions separated by 200 years - set in the same chateau in the 18th and late 20th centuries. Translated from the French by Linda Asher. 156 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0173696.