{"product_id":"books-the-joke-by-milan-kundera","title":"The Joke","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.'  ' A funny, sad, gripping, wise, marvellous book.' Sunday Times  Ludvik 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.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480462090513,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780571166930.jpg?v=1777547828","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-the-joke-by-milan-kundera","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}