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I Served The King Of England: Featuring an introduction by Adam Thirlwell
Bohumil Hrabal
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Description for I Served The King Of England: Featuring an introduction by Adam Thirlwell
Paperback. 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 the victory of Communism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208.
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 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 the victory of Communism. Ditie's fantastic journey intertwines the political and the personal in a narrative that both enlightens and entertains.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099540939
SKU
V9780099540939
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About Bohumil Hrabal
Bohumil Hrabal was born in 1914 in Brno-Zidenice, Moravia. He received a degree in Law from Prague's Charles University, and lived in Prague since the late 1940s. In the 1950s he worked as a manual laborer in the Kladno ironworks, from which he drew inspiration for his "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at that time. He won international acclaim for ... Read more
Reviews for I Served The King Of England: Featuring an introduction by Adam Thirlwell
The fantasising and storytelling deliver a body blow of total irreverence to the solemn mythopoeia of monumental historiography
Times Literary Supplement
Hrabal bounces and floats. His mode is a sort of dancing realism, somewhere between fairytale and satire.He is a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humour and a hushed tenderness of detail. We should read him
... Read more
Times Literary Supplement
Hrabal bounces and floats. His mode is a sort of dancing realism, somewhere between fairytale and satire.He is a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humour and a hushed tenderness of detail. We should read him
... Read more