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Milan kundera is the author of the novels the joke, farewell waltz, life is elsewhere, the book of laughter and forgetting, the unbearable lightness of being, and immortality, and the shortstory collection laughable lovesall originally written in czech. Publication date 1998 topics health resorts publisher. The francoczech novelist and critic milan kundera was born in brno and has lived in france, his second homeland, since 1975. Synopsis 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. 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. Download dark waltz ebook for free in pdf and epub format. The french version of his latest novel, the farewell party, was published last year.
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