Waltz

✍ Francesc Trabal 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Columbia University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 155 KB 👁 3 views

First published in 1936, and considered one of the most innovative and significant novels written in Catalan, *Waltz* tells the tale of an idle, introspective, and somewhat oblivious young "man without qualities" as he stumbles through a milieu of civic upheaval and bourgeois tragedy as he waltzes f

Waltzed

✍ Anthea Lawson 📂 Fiction 🏛 Fiddlehead Press 🌐 English ⚖ 44 KB 👁 3 views

A delightful Victorian Cinderella retelling from USA Today bestselling author Anthea Lawson. Eleanor Tremont never expected her father to pass away so unexpectedly - leaving her with a horrible stepmother, two grasping step-sisters, and no dowry whatsoever. Relegated to the status of a servant in h

Farewell Waltz

✍ Milan Kundera 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Faber & Faber 🌐 English ⚖ 118 KB 👁 2 views

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, je

Farewell Waltz

✍ Kundera, Milan 📂 Fiction 📅 1998 🏛 Faber & Faber 🌐 English ⚖ 134 KB 👁 2 views

"It is hard to imagine anything more chilling and profound than Kundera’s apparent lightheartedness." – Elizabeth Pochoda IN this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central Euroepean spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfri

Mephisto Waltz

✍ Kay, Bridgett 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🌐 English ⚖ 164 KB 👁 3 views

In a repurposed abbey deep in the mountains, Miranda must make her way through a maze of cryptic messages and personal demons to survive the cruel world of gay reparative therapy. When Miranda Rothschild’s twin brother, Mark, commits suicide, Miranda and her parents move to the peaceful, seaside

Farewell Waltz

✍ Asher, Aaron;Kundera, Milan 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Faber & Faber 🌐 English ⚖ 118 KB 👁 2 views

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, je