{"product_id":"9780547545882","title":"Too Loud a Solitude","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fable about the power of books and knowledge, “finely balanced between pathos and comedy,” from one of Czechoslovakia’s most popular authors (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A New York Times Notable Book\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Haňtá has been compacting trash for thirty-five years. Every evening, he rescues books from the jaws of his hydraulic press, carries them home, and fills his house with them. Haňtá may be an idiot, as his boss calls him, but he is an idiot with a difference—the ability to quote the Talmud, Hegel, and Lao-Tzu. In this “irresistibly eccentric romp,” the author Milan Kundera has called “our very best writer today” celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123042435312,"sku":"9780547545882","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547545882_p0.jpg?v=1769914971","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547545882","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}