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Book by Bohumil Hrabal
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Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most beloved and accessible works. Closely Watched Trains is the subtle and poetic portrait of Milos Hrma, a timid young railroad apprentice who insulates himself with fantasy against a reality filled with cruelty and grief. Day after day as he watches trains fly by, he torments himself with the suspicion that he himself is being watched and with fears of impotency. Hrma finally affirms his manhood and, with a sense of peace and purpose he has never known before, heroically confronts a trainload of Nazis.
About the Author
Born in 1914 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, Bohumil Hrabal worked as a lawyer, clerk, railwayman, traveling salesman, steelworker, and laborer before turning to literature in 1962. His books available in English are I Served the King of England, The Little Town Where Time Stood Still, and Too Loud a Solitude.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0140058087
- ISBN 13 9780140058086
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages107
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