I Served the King of England - Hardcover
By the author of "Closely Observed Trains", "The Small Town Where Time Stopped" and "My Brilliant Solitude", this novel is the story of a Czech waiter in the 30s and 40s, set against the backdrop of the country's history.
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"The fantasising and storytelling deliver a body blow of total irreverence to the solemn mythopoeia of monumental historiography" (Times Literary Supplement)
"Hrabal bounces and floats. His mode is a sort of dancing realism, somewhere between fairytale and satire.He is a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humour and a hushed tenderness of detail. We should read him" (Julian Barnes)
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"Hrabal bounces and floats. His mode is a sort of dancing realism, somewhere between fairytale and satire.He is a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humour and a hushed tenderness of detail. We should read him" (Julian Barnes)
"Well worth reading" (The Book Magazine)
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0701134623
- ISBN 13 9780701134624
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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