{"product_id":"9780140066289-secondhand-the-farewell-party","title":"The Farewell Party","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished simultaneously with Identity, his new novel, here is a masterful new translation of Milan Kundera's most brilliantly plotted and sheerly entertaining novel -- a dark farce of sex, murder, and motherhood. Set in an Old-Fashioned Central European Spa Town, Farewell Waltz follows the lives of eight characters: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American who is at once a saint and a Don Juan; a popular trumpeter and his beautiful obsessively jealous wife; a disillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his country and his young female ward. Perhaps the most accessible of Milan Kundera's novels, Farewell Waltz 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. Translated from the French text prepared by the author himself a quarter century after the novel was originally written, Farewell Waltz sparkles anew with wit, humor, and irony. A valuable addition to HarperFlamingo's impressive Kundera backlist, it offers readers a chance to discover, or rediscover, one of the very best works of a legendary writer. \"It is hard to imagine anything more chilling and profound that Kundera's apparent lightheartedness\". -- Elizabeth Pochoda \"Kundera ... remains faithful to this subtle, wily, devious talent for a fiction of 'erotic possibilities\". -- New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48801273839835,"sku":"9780140066289-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/9780140066289-us-300.jpg?v=1779843216","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780140066289-secondhand-the-farewell-party","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}