I Served the King of England - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Bohumil Hrabal, Paul Wilson (Translator)Series:New Directions Classics #0Publish date:2007-05-31Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811216876ISBN-10:081121687XUPC:9780811216876Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, ClassicsBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.96 x 6.58 x 0.65 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCD5TAY46V
I Served the King of England
First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is "an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel" (The New York Times), telling the tale of Ditie, a hugely ambitious but simple waiter in a deluxe Prague hotel in the years before World War II. Ditie is called upon to serve not the King of England, but Haile Selassie. It is...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811216876ISBN-10:081121687XUPC:9780811216876Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, ClassicsBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.96 x 6.58 x 0.65 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCD5TAY46V
Hrabal, Bohumil: - Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was born in Moravia. He is the author of such classics as Closely Watched Trains (made into an Academy-Award winning film by Jiri Menzel), The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, I Served the King of England, and Too Loud a Solitude. He fell to his death from the fifth floor of a Prague hospital, apparently trying to feed the pigeons.Wilson, Paul: - Paul...
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