Farewell Party the - Softcover

Kundera, Milan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571168876 ISBN 13: 9780571168873

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 1993

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RO60078526. THE FAREWELL PARTY. 1993. In-8. Broché. Etat passable, 2ème plat abîmé, Manque en coiffe de pied, Fortes mouillures. 209 pages. Quelques annotations au crayon dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

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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

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0571168876
• ISBN 13: 9780571168873
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224