{"product_id":"the-melancholy-of-resistance","title":"The Melancholy of Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Melancholy of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumours. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find - music, cosmology, fascism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe novel's characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town; her weakling husband; and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender centre of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48951110861114,"sku":"9781781256244","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0868\/6449\/4906\/files\/9781781256244.jpg?v=1762307796","url":"https:\/\/titlemusicfilmbooks.com\/products\/the-melancholy-of-resistance","provider":"TITLE ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}