As the author of the novel " The Unbearable Lightness of Being, " Kundera won many major literature awards during his lifetime, including the Jerusalem Prize and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature.
But the novel disaster quenched her courage for a time, for public opinion is a giant which has frightened stouter–hearted Jacks on bigger beanstalks than hers.
It doesn't suffer from the narrative longueurs of much Japanese indie cinema (Imaizumi's included), or the delusion that it's offering any deeper insights than it is.
Carrie, as I've already noted, is a short novel about a picked-on girl who discovers a telekinetic ability within herself—she can move objects by thinking about them.