{"product_id":"slowness","title":"Slowness","description":"\u003cp\u003eMilan Kundera's Slowness is a short, essayistic novel about speed, memory, and the eighteenth-century libertine novel, told with the author's characteristic interruptions and ironies. The narrator meditates on a single night at a French château while a contemporary plot unfolds in parallel, and the two timelines argue about whether slowness is a virtue or a luxury.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis preprint edition from HarperCollins comes in a slipcase, a format that treats the slender text as an object of some ceremony. Whether the packaging justifies the shelf space is a question for the collector; the prose inside remains the same. For readers who would rather think about sex and time than watch either one race past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabound","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48479567773908,"sku":"0060993480","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/5410\/7860\/files\/81LxKb90TYL._SL1464.jpg?v=1786842085","url":"https:\/\/checkout.vagaboundbooks.com\/products\/slowness","provider":"Vagabound","version":"1.0","type":"link"}