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All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
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
$19.99 AUD
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 Adam (INT) Michael Henry (TRN); Thirlwell Bohumil; Heim Hrabal
$34.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal
$12.95 AUD
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
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal; Adam Thirlwell (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
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
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
$28.95 AUD
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
The Gentle Barbarian by Bohumil Hrabal; Paul Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
$28.00 AUD
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
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A brilliant Kafka-esque novel about one man's resistance to a totalitarian regime (Czechoslovakia).
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