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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Part 4, Chapter 26

By Milan Kundera

Part 4, Chapter 26

Back in the car, Tereza starts thinking that everything is in disguise: the old Czech town is covered in Russian names; the photographers who thought they were helping their country were really helping the Russians; the spies at her bar.
She remembers back to the scene in the engineer's apartment: she asked for coffee, he went to the kitchen, but he came back without the coffee. She is certain that he used the time he was gone to set up a camera to photograph them together.
Tereza thought she gained her privacy when she left her mother's house., but now she sees that she is still living under her mother's roof.
She and Tomas are still walking through the Czech square when someone calls out his name.

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