Farewell Waltz Av Milan Kundera

<p><b>A dazzling tragicomic tale from the author of modern classic <i>The Unbearable Lightness of Being.</i></b><br><br><b>‘Anyone reading Kundera''s books is unlikely to forget them. They have an essential energy, a difference.’</b><i> New Statesman</i><br><br><b>‘Kundera is a self-confessed hedonist in a world beset by politics . . . Marvellous.’ </b>Salman Rushdie<br><br>Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, learns that a young nurse with whom he spent one brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant - and she has decided he is the father.<br>Thus begins a whirlwind farce as he returns to the spa: an accelerating dance which unfolds over five madcap days, encompassing Klima''s 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 is holding a farewell party before emigration.<br>Posing serious philosophical questions with his inimitable blasphemous lightness, <i>Farewell Waltz </i>is perhaps the most purely entertaining of Kundera''s novels, rich in black humour and profound human insights.</p>