Auteur: Bohumil Hrabal

From the flamboyant and unpredictable Maryska, who scandalises the town when she cuts short her golden tresses, to the eccentric Uncle Pepin, who always has to have a ready supply of furniture to sma …

For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex preoccupations. There is the exacting business of dispatching German troo …

A fable about the power of books and knowledge, “finely balanced between pathos and comedy, ” from one of Czechoslovakia’s most popular authors (Los Angeles Times).   A New Yor …

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A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech railway st …

‘Folks, life is beautiful! Bring on the drinks, I’m sticking around till I’m ninety! Do you hear?’A young boy grows up in a sleepy Czech community where little changes. His raucous, mischievous Uncle …

Set in small-town Bohemia between the wars, Cutting It Short centres on the flamboyant and unpredictable Maryska, who loves food and prepares endless feasts. Until one day she scandalises the town wh …

Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered market that smells of new-born babes, the cacophonous open-air dance hall. Mr Kafka is avoiding his landlad …

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‘One of the greatest European prose writers’ Philip Roth In the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an ever …

Finalmente tradotto in italiano (a cura e con una postfazione di Alessandro Catalano) il libro d’esordio di Hrabal, uno dei più grandi scrittori del Novecento. « Ho inchiodato rotaie, fatto il capost …

In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset of Communism, Bohumil …

Wonderful stories of Communist Prague by “the masterly Bohumil Hrabal” (The New Yorker) Never before published in English, the stories in Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult were writ …

A literary master’s story about the aggravations and great joys of cats, from “a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humor and a hushed tenderness of detail” (Julian Barnes) In the autumn of …

An unforgettable portrait of a major pioneering artist, by “Czechoslovakia’s greatest writer” (Milan Kundera) The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal’s moving homage to Vladimír Boudník, a brilliant b …

An ex-con on compassionate release revisits his old haunts, only to feel dispossessed by how much the city has changed…The son of political dissidents in Soviet-era Prague is condemned to a life of …