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All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'One of the greatest European prose writers' - Philip Roth. In the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal (author of Closely Observed Trains) bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an ever-growing, unruly community of cats. This is his confessional, ten ...Show more
Mr Kafka by Bohumil Hrabal
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Enter 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 landlady's blueberry wine breath, a stonemason witnesses the destruction of a monument to Stalin he risked his l ...Show more
Why I Write? - The Early Prose from 1945 To 1952 by Bohumil Hrabal
$32.95 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Modern Czech Classics Ser.
"Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal's later virtuosity." --New Yorker "A collection of formative fiction from a writer whose work has earned comparison with Joyce and Beckett. . . . Early work from a writer who merits a larger readership." --Kirkus Reviews This collection of the earliest prose by one ...Show more
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