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The Farewell Party (Writers from the other Europe)
The Farewell Party - Writers from the other Europe Author:Milan Kundera, Peter Kussi (Translator) In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, 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; a disillusioned former politi... more »cal prisoner about to leave his country and his young woman ward.
Farewell Party 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.« less