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Milan Kundera (April 1, 1929 - July 1, 2023) was a Czech and French writer of Czech origin who lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Joke. He is best known for his combination of erotic comedy and his criticism of the Czech communist regime. In Kundera's work, the erotic, an act of individual intimacy, is a means of opposition to the repressive nature of the regime.

Tangerine is the common name for a widely cultivated variety of mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata), whose easily-separated fruit is characterized by a rind with a deep orange, red, or orange-red color. The term also refers to the fruit of this citrus plant.