{"product_id":"slowness","title":"Slowness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cu\u003eSecond Hand\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExcellent Condition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSlowness is Milan Kundera's first novel in nearly five years, and it is also the first he has written in French.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDisconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows him through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated in time by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and ridiculous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Kundera's readers would expect, this novel, where one event follows another in quick succession, is at the same time a formidable display of existential analysis -- an analysis always ironic and amusing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSlowness (and rapidity), and discretion (and exhibitionism) are the principal concepts, and those which are to the reader like vital keys for understanding life in our contemporary world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milan Kundera, Linda Asher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43255053811881,"sku":"9780571178179","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/266064686e6c7a2640263c38676c317d7c5d463e4527565a453839393956.jpg?v=1696301277","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/slowness","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}