Farewell Waltz
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Farewell Waltz
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Author : Milan Kundera
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2020-10-09
Farewell Waltz written by Milan Kundera and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-09 with Fiction categories.
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 which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever-increasing speed. Klima's beautiful, jealous wife, the nurse's equally jealous boyfriend, a fanatical gynaecologist, a rich American, at once Don Juan and saint, and an elderly political prisoner who, just before his emigration, is holding a farewell party at the spa are all drawn into this black comedy, as in A Midsummer Night's Dream.As usual, Milan Kundera poses serious questions with a blasphemous lightness which makes us understand that the modern world has taken away our right to tragedy.
The Tar S Farewell
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Author : Stephen Adams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
The Tar S Farewell written by Stephen Adams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with Songs with instrumental ensemble categories.
A Farewell Waltz
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Author : Nicholas Sommers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-03-21
A Farewell Waltz written by Nicholas Sommers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-21 with categories.
When an old file folder of letters from 1933-1942 is discovered by the author he is taken on a journey into his family's past. In the process he uncovers one thousand years of Jewish history in German lands and begins to understand the tragedy which enveloped his family. His mother and grandmother were sentenced by Nazi special courts. This well documented story shows how financial death was to be followed by physical death. It takes the reader from Jewish emancipation in 1871 to imprisonment in the 1930's followed by shipment to a French concentration camp in Gurs. It follows the family from the Belle Epoch in Baden-Baden, Germany to the misery in the women's penitentiary in Aichach. In order to escape, two women had to overcome both the Nazi as well as the American bureaucracy. All who have read this have been moved by the story which illuminates the holocaust in a very intimate and personal way. The title is derived from a song in a movie about Chopin which was the last movie that one of the women saw in Germany titled "Der Abschiedswalzer". The farewell waltz was not only the last movie but depicts the many moves that were taken by the authorities and the individuals involved.
The Farewell Party
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Author : Milan Kundera
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
The Farewell Party written by Milan Kundera and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with categories.
Your House Will Pay
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Author : Steph Cha
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2019-10-17
Your House Will Pay written by Steph Cha and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-17 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the LA Times Book PrizeTwo families. One desperate to remember, the other to forget.Will the truth burn them both?'Masterful.' Ruth Ware'A searing examination of racial and family politics that is also an immaculately constructed whodunit.' Daily Telegraph, Summer Reads'Writing a page-turner about racial politics in the U.S. is a delicate enterprise fraught with pitfalls, but Cha manages it superbly in this thought-provoking family saga.' Daily Mail, Summer ReadsGrace Park and Shawn Mathews share a city, but seemingly little else. Coming from different generations and very different communities, their paths wouldn't normally cross at all. As Grace battles confusion over her elder sister's estrangement from their Korean-immigrant parents, Shawn tries to help his cousin Ray readjust to life on the outside after years spent in prison.But something in their past links these two families. As the city around them threatens to spark into violence, echoing events from their past, the lives of Grace and Shawn are set to collide in ways which will change them all forever.Beautifully written, and marked by its aching humanity as much as its growing sense of dread, Your House Will Pay is a powerful and moving family story, perfect for readers of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere and Paul Beatty's The Sellout.What readers are saying:'Simultaneously thrilling and thoughtful... a terrific, fast-moving story of two characters trying to live with the truth.''A must-read.''This novel is wonderful... it will stick with you.''Sensitive and astute, it's a book we need right now, and it's a book that lingers, offering plenty to think about.''A smart, powerful, fully-engaged book that never once blinks or backs down or takes an easy out, and then nails one of the best endings I've ever read.'
Translating Milan Kundera
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Author : Michelle Woods
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2006-05-04
Translating Milan Kundera written by Michelle Woods and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Translating Milan Kundera uses new archival research to view the wider cultural scope of the translation issue involving the controversies surrounding Kundera’s translated novels. It focuses on the language of the novels, Kundera’s ‘lost’ works, writing as translation, interpretation, exile, censorship and the social responses to translated fiction in the Anglophone world.
Kundera And Modernity
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Author : Liisa Steinby
language : en
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-28
Kundera And Modernity written by Liisa Steinby and has been published by Purdue University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a cultural concept. Of course, he is considered to be a modernist writer (some call him even a postmodernist), but what the broader concept of modernity intellectually, historically, socially, and culturally means for him and how this is expressed in his texts has not been thoroughly examined. Steinby's book fills this vacuum by analyzing Kundera's novels from the viewpoint of his understanding of the existential problems in the culture of modernity. In addition, his relation to those modernist novelists from the first half of the twentieth century who are most important for him is scrutinized in detail. Steinby's Kundera and Modernity is intended for students of modernism in literary and (comparative) cultural studies, as well as those interested in European and Central European studies.
Pinkerton Waltz
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Author : Michael Thessen
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2009-09
Pinkerton Waltz written by Michael Thessen and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09 with Art categories.
While historians debate of the fate of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the capital story of Etta Place is significant as any event that defines the Old West. Mistress to Sundance and matron to Butch, Etta was a notorious desperada, beautiful and well-read, an excellent horse-rider, and an expert markswoman. In 1901, on the lam from Pinkertons', the family of three fled to Argentina where Detective Frank Dimaio tracked them to their ranch near the small village of Cholila. In 1908, Dimaio reported: 'I know nothing of Etta Place, but believe she met the Sundance Kid in a house of ill-fame and became his common law wife. She returned to the United States while the Kid and Butch stayed in South America and were apparently killed in Bolivia by Soldaleros-although some believe they escaped.' Based on the oral history of Sadie Albin-aka Etta Place-Pinkerton Waltz is the irrefutable saga of the family of three settling in anonymity on their cattle ranch in the ghost town of Greenhorn, Colorado in 1910. In 1966, when Sadie's husband Eli (the Sundance Kid) passes away, she befriends Mary Iris, a cub newspaper reporter. Separated by generations, they develop an unfailing relationship and Sadie reveals her true identity. Pinkerton Waltz is a journalistic reconstruction of Sadie's lucid memories of the family of three. Sadie begins, "Dead outlaws make great legends. You bet. Better to get it from the horse's mouth than some horse's ass." Pinkerton Waltz peeks under the bedclothes at Fanny Porter's Sporting House in San Antonio, where, at fifteen, Etta's infamy began. On Sadie's 94th birthday, she recalls riding with the Wild Bunch-robbing banks and holding-up trains-and dancing with Pinkertons' along The Outlaw Trail. For half a century, Sadie lived an epic life to escape Etta's legendary past. Eli is mentored by Ernest Blumsenschein, co-founder of the Taos Artists Colony; Joseph (Butch Cassidy) promotes a barnyard-boxing match between The Manassa Mauler and a victorious mountain man; the family of three bottle moonshine in a still hidden beneath the bear cage at the Greenhorn Zoo. Pinkerton Waltz celebrates an ancient Chinaman named Boc Yow and laments the demise of the American cowboy. In the beginning, Etta dances a jitterbug to bring finality to a frenetic folklore. In the end, Sadie whispers the truth, soothing as a cradlesong. www.pinkertonwaltz.com
Destiny S Waltz
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Author : Robert de Warren
language : en
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Release Date : 2012-02-02
Destiny S Waltz written by Robert de Warren and has been published by Strategic Book Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In a memoir both fascinating and amazing de Warren recounts his life and as a dancer, director, choreographer, choreographer and designer. From Eva Peron, to the Royal Ballet, Shah of Iran to President Ford, amazing twists in a fascinating life.
All But The Waltz
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Author : Mary Clearman Blew
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2001-04-01
All But The Waltz written by Mary Clearman Blew and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In language reminiscent of the wild beauty of Big Sky Country, the author gives readers a glimpse into the lives of her family as she traces their connection to Montana's natural and human landscape. Beginning with her great-grandparents' arrival in 1882 in Montana--still a territory then--Blew relates the stories that make up her life. Illustrations.