The Little Town Where Time Stood Still (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Hrabal, Bohumil

 
9780241290248: The Little Town Where Time Stood Still (Penguin Modern Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241290244 ISBN 13: 9780241290248
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

'Folks, life is beautiful! Bring on the drinks, I'm sticking around till I'm ninety! Do you hear?'

A young boy grows up in a sleepy Czech community where little changes. His raucous, mischievous Uncle Pepin came to stay with the family years ago, and never left. But the outside world is encroaching on their close-knit town - first in the shape of German occupiers, and then with the new Communist order. Elegiac and moving, Bohumil Hrabal's gem-like portrayal of the passing of an age is filled with wit, life and tenderness.

'What is unique about Hrabal is his capacity for joy' Milan Kundera

'Even in a town where nothing happens, Hrabal's meticulous and exuberant fascination with the human voice insists that, as long as there's still breath in a body, life is endlessly eventful' Independent

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Bohumil Hrabal (Author)
Bohumil Hrabal was one of the most important and admired Czech writers of the twentieth century. He was born and raised in Brno in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1914. After working as a railway labourer, insurance agent, travelling salesman, manual labourer, paper-packer and stagehand, he published a collection of poetry that was quickly withdrawn by the communist regime. His best-known books include I Served the King of England, Closely Watched Trains (made into an Academy Award-winning film directed by Jiri Menzel) and Too Loud a Solitude. In 1997, he fell to his death from the fifth floor of a Prague hospital, apparently trying to feed the pigeons.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241290244
ISBN 13 
9780241290248
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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