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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvBohumil Hrabal

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This ebullient, gallivanting novella encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence.An ageing man holds court, spinning a single, unbroken stream of stories about his life – loves won and lost, jobs taken and abandoned, moments of absurdity and chance. As he talks, the line between memory and invention begins to blur.BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-02
Mått130 x 197 x 8 mm
Vikt76 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBrief Encounters
Antal sidor96
FörlagVintage Publishing
ISBN9781529986105
ÖversättareMichael Henry Heim

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Bohumil Hrabal was born in 1914 in Brno-Zidenice, Moravia. He received a degree in Law from Prague's Charles University, and lived in Prague since the late 1940s. In the 1950s he worked as a manual laborer in the Kladno ironworks, from which he drew inspiration for his "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at that time. He won international acclaim for such books as I Served the King of England and Too Loud a Solitude. Hrabal is considered, along with Jaroslav Hasek and Karel Capek, as one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century, and perhaps the most important in the post-war period. In February 1997 he flew out of his hospital window never to return.