{"product_id":"slowness-by-milan-kundera-1","title":"'Slowness' by Milan Kundera","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"218\" data-end=\"575\"\u003eKundera’s first novel written in French is a small, sly book about haste, memory, vanity, desire, set over the course of a single night.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"218\" data-end=\"575\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"412\" data-end=\"422\"\u003eSlowness\u003c\/em\u003e moves between contemporary characters at a château-hotel and an eighteenth-century tale of seduction, letting the two worlds mirror and mock each other. It’s one of his lightest books in scale and one of his sharpest in tone: elegant, amused, faintly cruel, and completely preoccupied with what speed does to intimacy, thought, and selfhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"218\" data-end=\"575\"\u003eA very good Kundera for people who like their philosophy dressed as flirtation, farce, and social observation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFaber \u0026amp; Faber hardback, first UK edition, 1996. Translated by Linda Asher from the French. Originally published in France as \u003cem data-start=\"175\" data-end=\"187\"\u003eLa Lenteur\u003c\/em\u003e. In great condition, little dust jacket wear but otherwise great. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44283071529043,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-29T113428.979.png?v=1774744481","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/slowness-by-milan-kundera-1","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}