{"product_id":"book-os15","title":"Letters to Milena","description":"The passionate but doomed epistolary love affair between a Czech translator and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Extraordinary…touching, horrifying, brilliant, sickly, [and] heartbreaking…. The most significant key we have for a reading of the author's novels and short stories.\" -The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into an epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenská, was a gifted and charismatic twenty-three-year-old who was uniquely able to recognize Kafka's complex genius and his even more complex character. For thirty-six-year-old Kafka, she was \"a living fire, such as I have never seen.\" It was to Milena that he revealed his most intimate self and, eventually, entrusted his diaries for safekeeping.","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50172107424048,"sku":"BDos15","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/os15-Square-cover.jpg?v=1770254784","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-os15","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}