{"product_id":"joke-the-1","title":"Joke, The","description":"The debut by author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being, of which Salman Rushdie said: ''It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful novel.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'' A funny, sad, gripping, wise, marvellous book.'' Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLudvik returns to his hometown a bitter man with a single aim: to do unto others what has been done to him. Expelled from the Communist Party as a student for a youthful joke, he has spent years exiled to a bleak labour camp. awaiting his chance for revenge on those who betrayed him - and one-time friends, lovers and comrades soon become entwined in his machinations as he devises the perfect plan . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKundera''s iconoclastic debut novel was a sensation during the Prague Spring: later banned, it launched his worldwide literary reputation, and its passionate exploration of humour, censorship and individualism is even more powerful over half a century later.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51455884558683,"sku":"9780571166930","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/joke-the-1","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}