I Served the King of England

First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I...
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Author: Bohumil Hrabal
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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I Served the King of England by Hrabal, Bohumil

I Served the King of England

¥3,879

I Served the King of England

¥3,879
Author: Bohumil Hrabal
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Bohumil Hrabal
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 05/31/2007
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.96h x 6.58w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780811216876

About the Author
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 Wilson lives in Canada and has translated works by Vaclav Haval, Bohumil Hrabal, Ivan Kilma, and Josef Skvorecky.

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