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All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'One of the greatest European prose writers' - Philip Roth. In the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal (author of Closely Observed Trains) bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an ever-growing, unruly community of cats. This is his confessional, ten ...Show more
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
22.99 AUD
Category: Animals
In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal bought a weekend cottage in Kersko, about an hour's drive east of Prague. From then until his death in 1997, he divided his time between Prague and Kersko, where he wrote and tended to ...Show more
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers 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 dispatch ...Show more
Cutting It Short by Bohumil Hrabal
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Description: 'As I crammed the cream horn voraciously into my mouth, at once I heard Francin's voice saying that no decent woman would eat a cream puff like that' In a quiet town where not much happens, Maryska, the flamboyant brewer's wife, stands out. She cuts her skirt short so that she can ride her ...Show more
Harlequin's Millions: A Novel by Bohumil Hrabal
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in a home for the elderly, Harlequin's Millions is full of unforgettable characters who reminisce about their lives and their changing country. The central characters are as playful as they are stubborn and melancholy, forever gazing back into their personal and collective history with transcendent ...Show more
The Little Town Where Time Stood Still by Bohumil Hrabal; James Naughton (Translator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 hi ...Show more
Too Loud a Solitude by HRABAL BOHUMIL
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Hanta has been compacting trash for thirty-five years. Every evening he resues books from the jaws of his hydraulic press, carries them home, and fills his house with them. Hanta may be an idiot, as his boss calls him, but he is an idiot with a difference - the ability to quote the Talmud, Hegel, and La ...Show more
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