Closely Watched Trains (Paperback)

A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For 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 against the occupying Germans seems a simple affair, in Bohumil Hrabal's touching, absurd masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism. Closely Watched Trains, which became the award-winning Jiri Menzel film of the 'Prague Spring', is a masterpiece that fully justifies Hrabal's reputation as one of the best Czech writers of the twentieth century.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Penguin Modern Classics
Release date:	March 2017
Authors:	Bohumil Hrabal
Translators:	Edith Pargeter
Dimensions:	198 x 128 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	96
ISBN-13:	978-0-241-29022-4
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Czech
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-241-29022-8
Barcode:	9780241290224

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