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I served the King of England / Bohumil Hrabal ; translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson

By:

Hrabal, Bohumil, (, 1914-1997)

Contributor(s):

Wilson, Paul R . (Paul Robert), , 1941-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: New Directions paperbook ; ; 1067Publication details: New York : New Directions , 2007, c1971Edition: First New Directions Paperbook editionDescription: 241 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780811216876

Uniform titles:

Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále . English

Subject(s):

Czechoslovakia -- --History -- --Fiction

Genre/Form:

Picaresque literature

DDC classification:

FIC HRA

LOC classification:

PG5039.18.R2 O2713 2007

Summary: 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC HRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		014879

"First published in hardcover by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1989"--T.p. verso.

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.

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