{"product_id":"9780571194711-farewell-waltz","title":"Farewell Waltz","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKlima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant.  She has decided he is the father and so begins a comedy which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever-increasing speed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dazzling tragicomic tale from the author of modern classic \u003ci\u003eThe Unbearable Lightness of Being.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Anyone reading Kundera's books is unlikely to forget them. They have an essential energy, a difference.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Kundera is a self-confessed hedonist in a world beset by politics . Marvellous.' \u003c\/b\u003eSalman Rushdie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKlima, 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.\u003cbr\u003eThus 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.\u003cbr\u003ePosing serious philosophical questions with his inimitable blasphemous lightness, \u003ci\u003eFarewell Waltz \u003c\/i\u003eis perhaps the most purely entertaining of Kundera's novels, rich in black humour and profound human insights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536453050742,"sku":"9780571194711","price":7.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36398772.jpg?v=1774289024","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571194711-farewell-waltz","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}