Word: ruzena
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...self and the state, of the self and others, lies at the heart of The Farewell Party. The novel's setting is a government health spa in an unnamed Eastern European socialist country. The spa caters to women who have fertility problems. A young nurse named Ruzena has no such difficulties. Only one time in bed with a famous touring trumpeter named Klima is enough to leave her pregnant. Klima has all but forgotten Ruzena when she calls some months later with the news. He returns to the fertility spa to try to convince her that she should have...
...ashamed of their fathers' wild oats; elder sons killed in duels they do not want to fight and younger sons sent off to cadet schools they do not want to attend. The story, insofar as there is one, deals with the love affair of Joachim von Pasenow and Ruzena, his Czech mistress...
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