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In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in preWorld War II Prague who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset of Communism Bohumil Hrabal takes us on a tremendously funny and satirical trip through 20thcenturyCzechoslovakia
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A comic, picaresque novel set against the backdrop of twentieth-century Czech history, about the rise and fall of an ambitious busboy in Prague.
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Isolated and impoverished, Ditie comes to a greater understanding of good and evil, and of his place in the vortex of history.
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