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241 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780811216876
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 31 May 2007
Description
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 Hrabal takes us on a tremendously funny and sat...
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241 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780811216876
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 31 May 2007
Description
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 Hrabal takes us on a tremendously funny and sat...