Farewell waltz
Kundera, Milan1998
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Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father. And so begins a comedy which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever increasing speed. Klima's beautiful, 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, just before his emigration, is holding a farewell party at the spa are all drawn into this black comedy, as in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Main title:
Farewell waltz / Milan Kundera ; translated by Aaron Asher.
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Imprint:
London : Faber, 1998.
Collation:
278p. ; 20 cm.
Variant title:
Other title: Farewell party
Notes:
Originally published: as The farewell party. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976; London: Faber, 1993.Translated from the Czech.
ISBN:
9780571194711 (pbk)
Dewey class:
891.86354
Language:
EnglishCzech
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BRN:
1055859