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Book Description
A comic, picaresque novel set against the backdrop of twentieth-century Czech history, about the rise and fall of an ambitious busboy in Prague.
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- English Books
- Hardcover 243 Pages
- Edition: 1st U.S. Ed
- ISBN-10: 015145745X
- ISBN-13: 9780151457458
- Publisher: Harcourt
- Pub date: Mar 01, 1989
- Also available as: Paperback, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780151457458 | Hardcover | $17.95 | -- | The Book Depository |
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Whereas George Orwell was down and out in Paris, Bohumil Hrabal’s narrator and hero, Ditie by name, is upwardly mobile in the hotel and restaurant world of Prague. Ditie loves his labors. In some respects his experiences resemble those of Thomas Mann ... (read full critics)