{"product_id":"farewell-waltz-9780060997007","title":"Farewell Waltz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"After \u003cem\u003eFarewell Waltz\u003c\/em\u003e there cannot be any doubt. Kundera is a master of contemporary literature. This novel is both an an example of virtuosity and a descent into the human soul.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e --\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eL'Unite\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSet in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, \u003cem\u003e Farewell Waltz\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this dark farce of a novel, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; and an disillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his country and his young woman ward. It is perhaps the most brilliantly plotted and sheer entertaining of Milan Kundera's novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in Bohemia in 1969-70, the book was first published (in 1976) in France under the title \u003cem\u003eLa valse aux adieux\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eFarewell Waltz\u003c\/em\u003e), and later in thirty-four other countries. This beautiful translation, made from the French text prepared by the novelist himself, fully reflects Kundera's own tone and intentions, and offers an opportunity for both the discovery and the rediscovery of one of the very best of a great writer's works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Milan Kundera\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.03h x 5.29w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060997007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKundera, Milan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929-2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975 until his death. He is the author of the novels \u003cem\u003eThe Joke\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLife Is Elsewhere\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFarewell Waltz\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Unbearable Lightness of Being\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eImmortality\u003c\/em\u003e, and the short story collection \u003cem\u003eLaughable Loves\u003c\/em\u003e--all originally in Czech. His more recent novels, \u003cem\u003eSlowness\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIdentity\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIgnorance\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Festival of Insignificance\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as his nonfiction works, \u003cem\u003eThe Art of the Novel, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eTestaments Betrayed\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Curtain\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eEncounter\u003c\/em\u003e, were originally written in French.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43110642778227,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":20.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_ce65dea1-00bc-49b1-8734-b7287c1ef53f.jpg?v=1748983207","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/farewell-waltz-9780060997007","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}