{"product_id":"9780060932381","title":"Immortality","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eImmortality\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Milan Kundera\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Ingenious witty provocative and formidably intelligent, both a pleasure and a challenge to the reader.\" — Jonathan Yardley, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMilan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnès becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\"Ingenious witty provocative and formidably intelligent, both a pleasure and a challenge to the reader.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliantly mordant...beautifully translated...strong and mesmerizing.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Inspired Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel...A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780060932381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial Modern Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41024097485006,"sku":"9780060932381","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780060932381.jpg?v=1647569211","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780060932381","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}