Milan Kundera: Farewell Waltz

Description Farewell Waltz is a dark farce that takes on sex, murder, and motherhood with a lightheartedness at once chilling and profound. It is one of Kundera's most accessible novels. Celebrated and distinguished, with an international following, Kundera commands a legion of readers who will be eager to discover, and rediscover, this gem of a novel.aSet in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight chracters are swept up as in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; and oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; and unillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his country and his young woman ward.aThis beautiful new translation, made-like the now standard 1996 translation of Milan Kundera'sThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting-from the French text prepared by the novelist himself, fully reflects his own tone and intentions.