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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Tusquets Editor
Publication date June 1, 1986
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9788472232327
ISBN-10 8472232328
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Original list price $36.50
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Summary
A famous jazz trumpeter and incurable philanderer returns to the spa where he spent one consequential night with a pretty young nurse and where his strategy of persuading her to abort their child complicates their own lives and the destinies of others
Amazon.com description: Product Description: En un balneario algo trasnochado convergen temporalmente ocho personas cuyas circustancias se van entretejiendo paulatinamente hasta formar, con la precision de una telarana, una trama en la que todos, directa o indirectamente, acaban viendose atrapados : el musico celebre y la hermosa enfermera que quiere quedarse embarazada ; la celosisima esposa del musico y el joven mecanico enamorado de la enfermera ; el ex convicto, victima de las purgas de su pais, que va a despedirse de la muy cerebral Olga ; el ginecologo, con sus fanfarrones proyectos demograficos ; el rico excentrico, una version de santo moderno. La despedida tiene la ligereza y la magia de un vals, de «un sueno de una noche de verano». Pero, tras esta forma intencionadamente frivola, se oculta la pregunta mas grave : merece el hombre vivir en esta tierra ? Acaso no hay que «liberar el planeta de la garras del hombre» ? En este sentido, cuesta imaginar algo mas glacial y mas profundo que la aparente ligereza de Kundera.

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