{"product_id":"9780571194711","title":"Farewell Waltz","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Kundera, Milan, Asher, Aaron \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePlays, playscripts\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 3 August 1998 by FABER \u0026amp; FABER in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 288 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 128 x 20 | 230g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dazzling tragicomic tale from the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Anyone reading Kundera's books is unlikely to forget them. They have an essential energy, a difference.' New Statesman'Kundera is a self-confessed hedonist in a world beset by politics . . . Marvellous.' Salman RushdieKlima, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePosing serious philosophical questions with his inimitable blasphemous lightness, Farewell Waltz is perhaps the most purely entertaining of Kundera's novels, rich in black humour and profound human insights.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43924927774979,"sku":"9780571194711","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9780571194711_37bd5d90-6862-4a3d-ba78-6e8f563099b1.jpg?v=1731410548","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9780571194711","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}