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All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'One of the greatest European prose writers' - Philip Roth. In the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal (author of Closely Observed Trains) bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an ever-growing, unruly community of cats. This is his confessional, ten ...Show more
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
Category: Biography
In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal bought a weekend cottage in Kersko, about an hour's drive east of Prague. From then until his death in 1997, he divided his time between Prague and Kersko, where he wrote and tended to ...Show more
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex preoccupations. There is the exacting business of dispatch ...Show more
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
Category: Classics
Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most beloved and accessible works. Closely Watched Trains is the subtle and poetic portrait of Milos Hrma, a timid young railroad apprentice who insulates himself with fantasy against a reality fill ...Show more
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal
Category: Classics
This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers, barmaids and balalaikas all play their part in the bawdy reminiscences of Hrabal's cobbler as he charms an audie ...Show more
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Adam (INT) Michael Henry (TRN); Thirlwell Bohumil; Heim Hrabal
Category: Classics | Series: New York Review Books Classics
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal; Adam Thirlwell (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
"Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable came true. Its remarkable hero, Ditie, is a hotel waiter who rises to become a millionaire and then loses it all again against the backdrop of events in Prague from the German invasion ...Show more
Mr Kafka by Bohumil Hrabal
Category: Classics
Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered market that smells of new-born babes, the cacophonous open-air dance hall. Mr Kafka is avoiding his landlady's blueberry wine breath, a stonemason witnesses the destruction of a monument to Stalin he risked his l ...Show more
Mr. Kafka and other tales from the time of the cult by Paul (TRN) Bohumil; Wilson Hrabal
Category: Classics
The Gentle Barbarian by Bohumil Hrabal; Paul Wilson
Category: Biography
The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal's homage to Vladimír Boudník, one of the greatest Czech visual artists of the 1950s and 1960s, whose life came to a tragic end shortly after the Soviet invasion of 1968. Boudnik and Hrabal had a close and often contentious friendship. For a brief period, in the ear ...Show more
Too Loud a Solitude by HRABAL BOHUMIL
Category: Fiction
Hanta has been compacting trash for thirty-five years. Every evening he resues books from the jaws of his hydraulic press, carries them home, and fills his house with them. Hanta may be an idiot, as his boss calls him, but he is an idiot with a difference - the ability to quote the Talmud, Hegel, and La ...Show more
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