Farewell Party - Softcover

Kundera, Milan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140096949 ISBN 13: 9780140096941

Publisher: Penguin, 1987

Synopsis

Published simultaneously with Identity, his new novel, here is a masterful new translation of Milan Kundera's most brilliantly plotted and sheerly entertaining novel -- a dark farce of sex, murder, and motherhood.Set in an Old-Fashioned Central European Spa Town, Farewell Waltz follows the lives of eight characters: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American who is at once a saint and a Don Juan; a popular trumpeter and his beautiful obsessively jealous wife; a disillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his country and his young female ward. Perhaps the most accessible of Milan Kundera's novels, Farewell Waltz poses the most serious questions with a blasphemous lightness that makes us see that the modern world has deprived us even of the right to tragedy.Translated from the French text prepared by the author himself a quarter century after the novel was originally written, Farewell Waltz sparkles anew with wit, humor, and irony. A valuable addition to HarperFlamingo's impressive Kundera backlist, it offers readers a chance to discover, or rediscover, one of the very best works of a legendary writer."It is hard to imagine anything more chilling and profound that Kundera's apparent lightheartedness". -- Elizabeth Pochoda"Kundera ... remains faithful to this subtle, wily, devious talent for a fiction of 'erotic possibilities". -- New York Times Book Review

About this title

Synopsis:

A famous jazz trumpeter and incurable philanderer returns to the spa where he spent one consequential night with a pretty young nurse and where his strategy of persuading her to abort their child complicates their own lives and the destinies of others.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0140096949
• ISBN 13: 9780140096941
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224