English translation originally published under the title The death of Mr. Baltisberger. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.
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Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) is considered one of the greatest Czech novelists of the twentieth century. He won international acclaim for the novels Closely Watched Trains, I Served the King of England, and Too Loud a Solitude.Michael Henry Heim is a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at UCLA. He is the translator of books by Bohumil Hrabal, Milan Kundera, Gunter Grass, Anton Chekhov, Danilo Kis, Karel Capek, and others.
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