Round 4: 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, one receives the epitaph “HE WANTED THE KINGDOM OF (10[1])GOD ON EARTH” (10[1])from his religious (10[1])son, Simon. A surgeon in this novel becomes a window washer after refusing to renounce his article comparing the communist party (10[1])to Oedipus. In this novel, the painter Sabina moves to America (10[1])after declaring a war on (10[1])kitsch. For 10 points, name this novel about Tomas and Tereza during the Prague Spring, (10[1])by Milan Kundera. ■END■ (10[2]0[3])

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