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By (author): Bohumil Hrabal

'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-growing, unruly community of cats. This is his confessional, tender and shocking meditation on the joys and torments of his life with them; how he became increasingly overwhelmed by the demands of the things he loved, even to the brink of madness.

'Dark and strange ... It begins with warmth and fluffiness, but soon descends into Dostoevskian horror' Daily Telegraph

'The Czech master exposed the animal within us' New Yorker

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Product Details
  • Weight: 78g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 27 Aug 2020
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780241422199

About Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal was one of the most important and admired Czech writers of the twentieth century. He was born and raised in Brno in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1914. After working as a railway labourer insurance agent travelling salesman manual labourer paper-packer and stagehand he published a collection of poetry that was quickly withdrawn by the communist regime. His best-known books include I Served the King of England Closely Watched Trains (made into an Academy Award-winning film directed by Jiri Menzel) and Too Loud a Solitude. In 1997 he fell to his death from the fifth floor of a Prague hospital apparently trying to feed the pigeons.

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