{"product_id":"9780571144563-immortality","title":"Immortality","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere' (Salman Rushdie)\u003cbr\u003eA novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. This is the author's seventh novel. His previous works include \"The Joke\", \"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting\" and \"The Unbearable Lightness of Being\". He has written one play, \"Jacques and his Master\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller by the author of modern classic \u003ci\u003eThe Unbearable Lightness of Being.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Like all great writers, Kundera leaves indelible marks on his readers' imaginations.'\u003cb\u003e Salman Rushdie \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a playful gesture between an old woman in a swimming pool and a youthful lifeguard springs the heroine of a novel: Agnès. In the course of her daily life - Saturday chores, saunas, lunch in the hectic Paris streets - memories arise of her dead father, an unexpected widower. Their conversations flood back,\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eAgnès\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003erealises that her secret inheritance was his way of granting her freedom. As s\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehe mentally revisits her childhood, from formative loves to her intense relationship with her sister, her past casts light on her present: her marriage, daughter, and eventual death.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExploring identity and existence, eroticism and modernity - with cameos from Goethe, Dali, Hemingway, and beyond - \u003ci\u003eImmortality \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates the nature of selfhood with inimitable wit, grace and intellectual nimbleness.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A serial feast, a banquet for the brain.' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eObserver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A joy to read. Wise, rueful, whimsically philosophical, Kundera teases the reader with provocations and paradoxes.' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30323121029217,"sku":"9780571144563","price":7.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36397242_4c313a1b-d665-4d90-9e82-6ff89300a26a.jpg?v=1759465836","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571144563-immortality","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}