{"product_id":"unbearable-lightness-of-being","title":"Unbearable Lightness Of Being","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e40th anniversary edition of the bestselling modern classic: Milan Kundera''s iconic novel of love and politics in communist Czechoslovakia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Shamelessly clever ... Exhilaratingly subversive and funny.'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A modern classic ... As relevant now as when it was first published. \u003c\/b\u003e'' John Banville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young woman is in love with a successful surgeon: a man torn between his love for her and his womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals, while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by choices and events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight - and we feel ''the unbearable lightness of being''.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKundera''s classic provoked a whole generation, encompassing passion and philosophy, body and soul, the Prague Spring and modern America, political acts and private desires, comedy and tragedy - in fact, all of human existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eWhat readers are saying:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Some books change your mind, some change your heart, the very best change your whole world ... A mighty piece of work, that will shape your life forever.''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''One of the best books I''ve ever read ... \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA book about love and life, full of surprises. Beautiful.''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''This book is going to change your life ... It definitely leaves you with a hangover after you''re done reading.''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Kundera writes about love as if in a trance so the beauty of it is enchanting and dreamy ... Will stay with you.''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57305310855550,"sku":"NW9780571135394","price":9.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571135394.jpg?v=1778244322","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/unbearable-lightness-of-being","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}