{"product_id":"the-joke","title":"The Joke","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.''\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'' A funny, sad, gripping, wise, marvellous book.'' Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"milan-kundera","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46904572018916,"sku":"9780571166930","price":129.0,"currency_code":"MAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/6386\/2439\/files\/9780571166930.jpg?v=1761595157","url":"https:\/\/booksondemand.ma\/products\/the-joke","provider":"Booksondemand","version":"1.0","type":"link"}