An earlyish novel by Milan Kundera, this story takes place in a spa town over the course of several days. We meet Rusenka, a nurse at the spa who has recently realized she is pregnant, and Klima, a trumpeter who has gotten Rusenka pregnant, and spends the bulk of the novel trying to get out of getting her pregnant. This novel, like a lot of Milan Kundera novels, also involves a host of ancillary characters whose own problems interweave what I would consider to be […]