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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Harlequin's millions Harlequin's millions Bohumil Hrabal "By the writer whom 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 fo… OL19977811W
Mr. Kafka and other tales from the time of the cult Mr. Kafka and other tales from the time of the cult Bohumil Hrabal "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 hi… OL20011641W
Une trop bruyante solitude Une trop bruyante solitude Bohumil Hrabal Voilà trente-cinq ans que Monsieur Hanta, ouvrier modeste, nourrit la presse d'une usine de recyclage, où s'engloutissent jour après jour des tonnes de livres interdits par la censure, et jusqu'aux c… OL22132051W
Trains étroitement surveillés Trains étroitement surveillés Bohumil Hrabal Une petite gare de Bohême pendant la guerre. Un stagiaire tente de s'ouvrir les veines parchagrin d'amour. L'adjoint du chef de gareprofite d'une garde de nuit pour couvrir detampons les fesses d'une… OL24856426W
Total fears Total fears Bohumil Hrabal "Bohumil Hrabal was born 1914 in Brno, Moravia. At the beginning of 1989, after a long literary silence, Hrabal again began to write regularly - this time short individual texts. He considered these … OL847952W
Příliš hlučná samota Příliš hlučná samota Bohumil Hrabal Funny, absurd, sad, ultimately tragic and at the same time affirmational, this story of Hanta is one of the great celebrations of the human spirit and of the transcendent value of art and beauty. (I… OL847996W
I Served The King Of England I Served The King Of England Bohumil Hrabal A searing, humorous, satirical and soul searching novel, almost picaresque, about a young waiter in pre-war and wartime Czechoslovakia. As we follow him from the failures to the successes, the joys a… OL847998W