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Closely Watched Trains

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Closely Watched Trains

By Bohumil Hrabal

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About the book

A 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 station, life is full of worries: his burdensome virginity, his love for the pretty conductor Masha, the scandalous goings-on in the station master's office. Beside them, the part he will come to play against the occupying Germans seems a simple affair, in Bohumil Hrabal's touching, absurd masterpiece o...Show more

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ISBN

9780241290224

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2017

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Closely Watched Trains

Format

Paperback

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