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All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
Category: Classic Fiction | 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: Science
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
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
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
Category: Fiction | 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
Cutting It Short by Bohumil Hrabal
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Description: 'As I crammed the cream horn voraciously into my mouth, at once I heard Francin's voice saying that no decent woman would eat a cream puff like that' In a quiet town where not much happens, Maryska, the flamboyant brewer's wife, stands out. She cuts her skirt short so that she can ride her ...Show more
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal
Category: Fiction
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: Activity | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Harlequin's Millions: A Novel by Bohumil Hrabal
Category: Fiction
Set in a home for the elderly, Harlequin's Millions is full of unforgettable characters who reminisce about their lives and their changing country. The central characters are as playful as they are stubborn and melancholy, forever gazing back into their personal and collective history with transcendent ...Show more
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
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 to ...Show more
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