{"product_id":"9780571166930","title":"The Joke : 'A very beautiful novel.' (Salman Rushdie)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.'' A funny, sad, gripping, wise, marvellous book.' Sunday TimesLudvik 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 . . . Kundera'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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shelf-Made.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52063800983880,"sku":"9780571166930","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/1260\/5000\/files\/9780571166930_e79057f5-29bc-4964-9147-8b2799344039.jpg?v=1764085763","url":"https:\/\/shelfmadebooks.com\/products\/9780571166930","provider":"Shelf-Made.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}