{"product_id":"slowness-a-novel-isbn-9780060928414","title":"Slowness: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Irresistible. . . . \u003cem\u003eSlowness\u003c\/em\u003e is an ode to sensuous leisure, to the enjoyment of pleasure rather than just the search for it.\" — \u003cem\u003eMirabella\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMilan Kundera's lightest novel, a \u003cem\u003edivertimento\u003c\/em\u003e, an \u003cem\u003eopera buffa\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSlowness\u003c\/em\u003e is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of \u003cem\u003eSlowness\u003c\/em\u003e through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderlying this libertine fantasy is a profound meditation on contemporary life: about the secret bond between slowness and memory, about the connection between our era's desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed. And about \"dancers\" possessed by the passion to be seen, for whom life is merely a perpetual show emptied of every intimacy and every joy.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eMilan Kundera's lightest novel, a \u003cem\u003edivertimento\u003c\/em\u003e, an \u003cem\u003eopera buffa\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSlowness\u003c\/em\u003e is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of \u003cem\u003eSlowness\u003c\/em\u003e through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic. Underlying this libertine fantasy is a profound meditation on contemporary life: about the secret bond between slowness and memory, about the connection between our era's desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed. And about \"dancers\" possessed by the passion to be seen, for whom life is merely a perpetual show emptied of every intimacy and every joy.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Irresistible. . . . Slowness is an ode to sensuous leisure, to the enjoyment of pleasure rather than just the search for it.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMirabella\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Audacity, wit, and sheer brilliance.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Paradoxically, \u003cem\u003eSlowness\u003c\/em\u003e. . . is the fastest paced of Kundera's novels as well as the most accessible.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887342645477,"sku":"NP9780060928414","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060928414.jpg?v=1730225933","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/slowness-a-novel-isbn-9780060928414","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}