Synopsis
Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most popular works. Milos Hrma is a timid railroad apprentice who insulates himself with fantasy against a reality filled with cruelty and grief. After receiving acclaim as a novel, Closely Watched Trains was made into a successful film that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film of 1967.
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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.
Among Josef Škvorecký's numerous books are Sins for Father Knox, Talkin Mosckow Blues, and Dvorak in Love.
Edith Pargeter has also translated Bozena Nemcova's Granny: Scenes from Country life and Jan Neruda's Tales of the Little Quarter.
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Closely Watched Trains
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Northwestern University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0810108577
ISBN 13: 9780810108578
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ISBN 13: 9780810108578
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