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Pirouettes On A Postage Stamp
Bohumil Hrabal

$33.95 – Paperback book /

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, he quickly made his mark on the ...

I Served The King Of England
Bohumil Hrabal

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

With an introduction by Adam Thirlwell

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 ri... Buy or find out more 



Dancing Lessons For The Advanced In Age
Bohumil Hrabal

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRLWELL This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republics best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and em... Buy or find out more 


Closely Observed Trains
Bohumil Hrabal

$22.99 – Paperback book / Sphere

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Too Loud A Solitude
Bohumil Hrabal

$22.99 – Paperback book / Abacus

Hantá rescues books from the jaws of his compacting press and carries them home. Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera calls “our very best writer today,” celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word. Translat...

I Served The King Of England
Bohumil Hrabal

$23.95 – Paperback book / New Directions

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 of Communism, Bohumil Hrabal takes us on a... Buy or find out more 



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