{"product_id":"the-book-of-laughter-and-forgetting-9780571174379","title":"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A masterpiece'' (Salman Rushdie) by the author of modern classic \u003ci\u003eThe Unbearable Lightness of Being.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''It took the temperature of the age as no other book did. It was the great novel of the end of European Communism: a novel of ideas and eroticism, the surreal and the naturalistic.'' \u003cb\u003eHoward Jacobson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''One is torn between profound pleasure in the novel''s execution and wonder at the pain that inspired it.'' \u003cb\u003eIan McEwan \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne freezing day in 1948, Klement Gottwald addresses Prague, wearing his comrade Clementis'' fur cap - and Communist Czechoslovakia is born. But after being hanged for treason, Clementis is airbrushed out of propaganda photographs. All that remains is a bare wall, and his cap. So begins an unforgettable voyage through seven narratives, interspersed with luminous meditations on politics, philosophy, music and history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dissident seeks his first lover - now a Party loyalist - to persuade her to return hi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865095090519,"sku":"9780571174379","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780571174379.jpg?v=1722273529","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-book-of-laughter-and-forgetting-9780571174379","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}