Der große tschechische Schriftsteller Bohumil Hrabal führte jene burleske Literatur fort, die den...

Wer ich bin: Antwort:'Ich hatte immer den Vorteil, keine echte Bildung und kein echtes Wissen zu ...

'Folks, life is beautiful! Bring on the drinks, I'm sticking around till I'm ninety! Do you hear?...

Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia and spent decades working at a...

From the flamboyant and unpredictable Maryska, who scandalises the town when she cuts short her g...

An ex-con on compassionate release revisits his old haunts, only to feel dispossessed by how much...

'One of the greatest European prose writers' Philip RothIn the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal bou...

In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech ...

Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered marke...

"e;Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal's later virtuosity."e; -New Yorker "e;A colle...

A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of ...