Description
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 that he is the father. Thus begins a comedy that unfolds over five madcap days at ever-increasing speed. Klima's beautiful, jealous wife, the nurse's equally jealous boyfriend, a fanatical gynaecologist, a rich American who is both Don Juan and saint, and an elderly political prisoner holding a farewell party at the spa before his emigration are all drawn into this black comedy, like characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream. As usual, Milan Kundera poses serious questions with a blasphemous lightness that makes us understand how the modern world has taken away our right to tragedy.
Information
Author: Kundera Milan
Language: English
Publication date: December 21, 2015
Manufacturer: The Book Service Ltd (TBS/GBS)
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Czech fiction in english, Czech authors in english
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 278
ISBN/EAN: 9780571194711