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Bohumil Hrabal
Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point…
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRLWELL ‘Our very best writer today’ Milan Kundera Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of…
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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…
In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset…
