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 one of the great moments in his life. Eventually, he falls in
love with a Nazi woman athlete as the Germans are invading
Czechoslovakia. After the war, through the sale of valuable stamps
confiscated from the Jews, he reaches the heights of his ambition,
building a hotel. He becomes a millionaire, but with the
institution of communism, he loses everything and is sent to
inspect mountain roads. Living in dreary circumstances, Ditie comes
to terms with the inevitability of his death, and with his place in
history.
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