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  • Too Loud a Solitude

    A Novel

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    A fable about the power of books and knowledge, "finely balanced between pathos and comedy," from one of Czechoslovakia's most popular authors ( Los Angeles Times).A New York Times Notable BookHaňtá has been compacting trash for thirty-five years. Every evening, he rescues books from the jaws of his hydraulic press, carries them home, and fills his house with them. Haňtá may be an idiot, as his ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Total Fears

    Selected Letters to Dubenka

    by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by James Naughton ...
    In these letters written to April Gifford (Dubenka) between 1989 and 1991 but never sent, Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) chronicles the momentous events of those years as seen, more often than not, from the windows of his favorite pubs. In his palavering, stream-of-conscious style that has marked him as one of the major writers and innovators of postwar European literature, Hrabal gives a humorous and ... Read more

    $15.21 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Closely Watched Trains

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    Translated by Edith Pargeter ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writersFor twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech railway station, life is full of worries: his burdensome virginity, his love for the pretty conductor Masha, the scandalous goings-on in the station master's office. Beside them, the part he will come to play ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Gentle Barbarian

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    Translated by Paul Wilson ...
    An unforgettable portrait of a major pioneering artist, by “Czechoslovakia’s greatest writer” (Milan Kundera)The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal’s moving homage to Vladimír Boudník, a brilliant but troubled Czech graphic artist who died tragically at the age of forty-four a few months after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.The Gentle Barbarian takes us to the heart of Boudník’s ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Closely Observed Trains

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    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 dispatching German troop trains to and from the toppling Eastern front; the problem of ridding himself of his burdensome innocence; and the awesome scandal of Dispatcher Hubicka's gross misuse of the station's official ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Tender Barbarian

    Pedagogic Texts

    by Bohumil Hrabal, Vladimír Boudník, translated by Jed Slast ...
    Vladimír Boudník never wanted to live as a successor towhat had already occurred. He preferred instead to playthe imbecile whose only wish was to initiate a new era,a new epos, a new life brought into being through him.— Bohumil HrabalThe Tender Barbarian is a series of texts Hrabal compiled on the one hand to pay homage to his deceased friend, experimental graphic artist Vladimír Boudník, and on ... Read more

    $15.93 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Harlequin's Millions

    A Novel

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    Translated by Stacey Knecht ...
    By the writer Milan Kundera called Czechoslovakia's greatest contemporary writer comes a novel (now in English for the first time) peopled with eccentric, unforgettable inhabitants of a home for the elderly who reminisce about their lives and their changing country. Written with a keen eye for the absurd and sprinkled with dialogue that captures the poignancy of the everyday, this novel allows us ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    Translated by Michael Henry Heim ...
    Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal’s rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story of his life—or at least unburdens himself of a lifetime’s worth of stories. Thus we learn of amatory ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • I Served the King of England (New Directions Classic)

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    Translated by Paul Wilson ...
    Series series New Directions Classic
    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 tremendously funny and satirical trip through 20th-century Czechoslovakia.First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • The Little Town Where Time Stood Still

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    From the flamboyant and unpredictable Maryska, who scandalises the town when she cuts short her golden tresses, to the eccentric Uncle Pepin, who always has to have a ready supply of furniture to smash when he's angry, Bohumil Hrabal creates a range of enchanting and memorable characters - confirming his status as one of Europe's greatest writers.Includes THE LITTLE TOWN WHERE TIME STOOD STILL and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Mr. Kafka

    And Other Tales from the Time of the Cult

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    Translated by Paul Wilson ...
    Wonderful stories of Communist Prague by “the masterly Bohumil Hrabal” (The New Yorker)Never before published in English, the stories in Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult were written mostly in the 1950s and present the Czech master Bohumil Hrabal at the height of his powers. The stories capture a time when Czech Stalinists were turning society upside down, inflicting their ... Read more

    $17.49 CAD

  • All My Cats

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    Translated by Paul Wilson ...
    A literary master’s story about the aggravations and great joys of cats, from “a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humor and a hushed tenderness of detail” (Julian Barnes)In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal bought a cottage in Kersko. From then until his death in 1997, he divided his time between Prague ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD