{"product_id":"slowness-a-novel-by-milan-kundera","title":"Slowness: A Novel \/ by Milan Kundera","description":"\u003cp\u003eHarperCollins, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Minor dustjacket edge wear. VG\/VG. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMilan Kundera's lightest novel, a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003edivertimento\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, an\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eopera buffa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSlowness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDisconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSlowness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUnderlying this libertine fantasy is a profound meditation on contemporary life: about the secret bond between slowness and memory, about the connection between our era's desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed. And about \"dancers\" possessed by the passion to be seen, for whom life is merely a perpetual show emptied of every intimacy and every joy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Desierto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56914343559334,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/3465\/5654\/files\/slowness.jpg?v=1786051289","url":"https:\/\/249f2c-1b.myshopify.com\/products\/slowness-a-novel-by-milan-kundera","provider":"DESIERTO BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}