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A dazzling tragicomic tale from the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Anyone reading Kundera''s books is unlikely to forget them. They have an essential energy, a difference.' New Statesman
Kundera is a self-confessed hedonist in a world beset by politics . . . Marvellous.' Salman Rushdie

Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, learns that a young nurse with whom he spent one brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant - and she has decided he is the father.
Thus begins a whirlwind farce as he returns to the spa: an accelerating dance which unfolds over five madcap days, encompassing Klima''s jealous wife, the nurse''s equally jealous boyfriend, a fanatical gynaecologist, a rich American (at once Don Juan and saint) and an elderly political prisoner who is holding a farewell party before emigration.
Posing serious philosophical questions with his inimitable blasphemous lightness, Farewell Waltz is

Kundera M Farewell Waltz

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    A Paperback / softback by Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 3 August 1998
      ISBN-13 9780571194711
      978-0571194711
      ISBN-10 0571194710
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      Fiction Poetry

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A dazzling tragicomic tale from the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

      Anyone reading Kundera''s books is unlikely to forget them. They have an essential energy, a difference.' New Statesman
      Kundera is a self-confessed hedonist in a world beset by politics . . . Marvellous.' Salman Rushdie

      Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, learns that a young nurse with whom he spent one brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant - and she has decided he is the father.
      Thus begins a whirlwind farce as he returns to the spa: an accelerating dance which unfolds over five madcap days, encompassing Klima''s jealous wife, the nurse''s equally jealous boyfriend, a fanatical gynaecologist, a rich American (at once Don Juan and saint) and an elderly political prisoner who is holding a farewell party before emigration.
      Posing serious philosophical questions with his inimitable blasphemous lightness, Farewell Waltz is

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