Harlequin's Millions: A Novel
Author(s): Bohumil Hrabal
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 wonder. Written with a touch of the comically absurd and sprinkled with dialogue that captures the poignancy of the everyday, Harlequin's Millions is a sensual delight.
General Information
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- : Archipelago Books
- : Archipelago Books
- : 0.364
- : 14 March 2012
- : United States
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Bohumil Hrabal
- : Paperback
- : 891.86354
- : 320
More About The Product
Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) worked as a railway dispatcher during the Nazi occupation of then-Czechoslovakia, a traveling salesman, a steelworker, a recycling mill worker, and a stagehand. His novels, which include "Too Loud a Solitude," "Closely Watched Trains," and "I Served the King of England," were censored under the Communist regime and have since been translated into nearly thirty languages. He fell to his death from the fifth floor of a Prague hospital, apparently trying to feed the pigeons. The author lives in Czech Republic.
