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The Gentle Barbarian by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.97The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal's moving homage to Vladimir Boudnik, a brilliant but troubled Czech graphic artist who died tragically at the age of forty-four a few months after the Soviet... -
Gaps: A Novel by Bohumil Hrabal
Booksplease Price: £26.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810125506Author Bohumil HrabalFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Northwestern University... -
Cutting It Short by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'As I crammed the cream horn voraciously into my mouth, at once I heard Francin's voice saying that no decent woman would eat a cream puff like that'In a quiet town where not much happens, Maryska,... -
Harlequin's Millions: A Novel by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Best Translated Book Award (Fiction) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780981955735Author Bohumil HrabalFormat... -
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writersFor twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech railway... -
Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex preoccupations. There is the exacting business of dispatching German... -
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37'One of the greatest European prose writers' Philip RothIn the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an... -
Mr Kafka Bohumil Hrabal 9781784871178
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered market that smells of new-born babes, the cacophonous open-air dance hall. Mr Kafka is avoiding his... -
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal 9780811228954
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.36In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal bought a cottage in Kersko. From then until his death in 1997, he divided his... -
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal 9780241752142
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.74Closely Watched Trains tells the story of Miloš Hrma, a young railroad apprentice coming of age in wartime Czechoslovakia. Miloš is overwhelmed with worries – about his virginity, his love for the... -
The Death of Mr. Baltisberger by Bohumil Hrabal 9780810127012
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77Originally published as The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, the fourteen stories in Romance showcase the breadth of Bohumil Hrabal's considerable gifts: his humor of the grotesque, his often surprising... -
Vita Nuova: A Novel by Bohumil Hrabal 9780810125469
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Vita Nuova is the second in a trilogy of memoirs written from the perspective of Bohumil Hrabal's wife, Eliska, about their life in Prague from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Communist repression of... -
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers,... -
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal 9780811216876
Booksplease Price: £12.69First 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),... -
Total Fears: Selected Letters to Dubenka by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788090217195Author Bohumil HrabalFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher... -
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal 9781529986105
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.01This ebullient, gallivanting novella encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence.Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers,... -
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal eSkvoreckay 9780810112780
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Rambling On: An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab Bohumil Hrabal 9788024632865
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44Novelist Bohumil Hrabal was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and he spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point, he quickly made... -
The Tender Barbarian: Pedagogic Texts by Bohumil Hrabal 9788086264523
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £13.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086264523Author Bohumil HrabalFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher... -
The Little Town Where Time Stood Still by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Folks, life is beautiful! Bring on the drinks, I'm sticking around till I'm ninety! Do you hear?'A young boy grows up in a sleepy Czech community where little changes. His raucous, mischievous... -
Mr. Kafka: And Other Tales from the Time of the Cult by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.52Never before published in English, the stories in Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult were written mostly in the 1950s and present the Czech master Bohumil Hrabal at the height of his... -
Rambling On: An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab Bohumil Hrabal 9788024623160
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.94Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point, he quickly... -
Bohumil Hrabal: A Full-Length Portrait Jiri Pelan 9788024639093
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.88Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as "one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover of gossip,... -
I Served The King Of England: Featuring an introduction by Adam Thirlwell by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRLWELL'Our very best writer today' Milan KunderaSparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable... -
Why I Write?: The Early Prose from 1945 to 1952 by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.29This collection of the earliest prose by one of literature's greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Mar chal put it, "the moment when Hrabal discovered the magic of writing." Taken from the... -
I Served The King Of England: Featuring an introduction by Adam Thirlwell by Bohumil Hrabal 9781529976472
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City Alfred Thomas 9780226795409
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.80A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a... -
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Why can't a human be more like a cat? That is the question threaded through this vivid patchwork of philosophy, fiction, history and memoir ... a wonderful mixture of flippancy and profundity,... -
The Legend Of The Holy Drinker by Joseph Roth
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72'One of the greatest European novelists of the century' Sunday Times Andreas is an alcoholic and a vagrant who lives under a bridge. Downtrodden, submerged at the bottom of society, he lives a... -
The Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe between the Wars Joseph Roth 9781783788477
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'A hugely significant and wonderfully haunting collection' William Boyd In the 1920s and 1930s, Joseph Roth travelled extensively in Europe, living in hotels and writing about the towns through... -
Prague: A Traveler's Literary Companion by Paul Wilson 9781883513016
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.19Travel to one of the most beautiful cities in the world in the company of its finest writers. Walk the mysterious nighttime streets of Prague with Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek, eavesdrop on... -
Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History by Derek Sayer
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy-with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorshipPostcards from Absurdistan is a cultural... -
Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History Derek Sayer 9780691264554
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy-with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorshipPostcards from Absurdistan is a cultural... -
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'One of the greatest novels ever written' Philippe Sands Roth's masterpiece: an epic, moving account of the final days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, told through the fortunes of one family. ... -
Dvorak in Love: A Light-Hearted Dream by Josef Skvorecky 9780393305487
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.18Here is a wonderfully imagined picture of a little known period in American musical history. In 1892, at the height of his prodigious powers, Antonin Dvorak was persuaded to leave his native Bohemia... -
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Literature and Film from East Europe's Forgotten "Second World": Essays of Invitation by Professor Gordana P. Crnkovic 9781501370656
Booksplease Price: £95.49Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia-no longer on the map. East Europe of the socialist period may seem like a historical oddity, apparently so different from everything before and after. Yet the masterpieces... -
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Literature and Film from East Europe's Forgotten "Second World": Essays of Invitation by Professor Gordana P. Crnkovic 9781501370694
Booksplease Price: £31.52Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia-no longer on the map. East Europe of the socialist period may seem like a historical oddity, apparently so different from everything before and after. Yet the masterpieces... -
Samizdat Past+Present Tomas Glanc 9788024640334
Booksplease Price: £18.63Much of what we now consider the canon of twentieth-century Czech literature-the work of authors like Bohumil Hrabal, Ludvik Vaculik, and Jachym Topol, among many others-has, in fact, just recently... -
Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change by Daniel Just 9781032290157
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change engages with current debates in world literature over the past twenty years, addressing the nature of literary influence in centers and... -
Is There Anybody to Love You? by Kalin Terzyiski
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. A hymn to the city of Sofia, a series of whimsical character portraits, a literary mural of Bulgaria at the beginning of the twenty-first century,...