Farewell Waltz

Author: Milan Kundera

Klima, 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 in which, during five madcap days, events unfold with ever-increasing speed. Klima’s beautiful, jealous wife; the nurse’s equally jealous boyfriend; a fanatical gynec….Read More

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