Farewell Waltz
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A dazzling tragicomic tale from the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
'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 Rushdie
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.
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.
Posing 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.
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Originally published in 1976, Kundera's delightful but powerful novel proves endlessly entertaining in this audio production helmed by the gifted Richmond Hoxie. Telling the tale of eight locals in a small resort town in Central Europe, the book examines serious questions about modern life in a witty (not to mention hilarious) manner. Hoxie's characters are well developed and expertly realized. It seems there is no vocal interpretation he's not up for and does not ably execute. Among the highlights are his renditions of lovelorn Frantisek, who wants so desperately to be the father of his love's child, and a gynecologist, who longs to be an American. Kundera's characters are each as original and entertaining as the next, and Hoxie stretches and exercises his voice to masterly capture them all. This is an enchanting performance that demands repeated listening.
