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  • I'm so tempted to type the whole book in the margin notes. It's like every line and every paragraph was but a piece of smooth jazz - while the musician was by all means a prodigy. It was a sorrowful story about how a lone soul stand against a corrupted dictatorship, but it's only part of its beauty ... Continue

    I'm so tempted to type the whole book in the margin notes. It's like every line and every paragraph was but a piece of smooth jazz - while the musician was by all means a prodigy. It was a sorrowful story about how a lone soul stand against a corrupted dictatorship, but it's only part of its beauty - what made the book so remarkable and captivating was the language and the narration. Hrabal wrote the novel with a distinctive style somewhere between prose and poetry; as reader I was completely blown away.

    

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Hantá rescues books from the jaws of his compacting press and carries them home. Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera calls “our very best writer today,” celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word. Translated by Michael Henry Heim.

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