Round 3: Tossup 19

In this novel, the narrator muses how poop “is a more onerous theological problem than is evil,” while pondering whether or not God has intestines. After the two irreligious protagonists of this novel die crushed beneath a truck, (10[1])one receives the epitaph “HE WANTED THE KINGDOM (10[1])OF GOD ON EARTH” (10[1])from his religious son, (10[1])Simon. A surgeon in this novel becomes a window washer after refusing to renounce his article comparing the communist party to Oedipus. In this novel, the painter Sabina moves to (10[1])America after declaring a war (10[1])on kitsch. For 10 points, (10[1])name this novel about Tomas and Tereza during the Prague Spring, by Milan Kundera. (10[3])■END■ (10[2])

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