Description: An unforgettable portrait of a major pioneering artist, by "Czechoslovakia's greatest writer" (Milan Kundera)
Brief description: Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was born in Moravia. He is the author of such classics as Closely Watched Trains (made into an Academy-Award winning film by Jiri Menzel), The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, I Served the King of England, and Too Loud a Solitude.
Review Quotes: Hrabal's capacity for simultaneous wonder and attentiveness--for a cold shrewdness matched by overflowing sympathy--is his most astonishing quality as a writer.--Matt Weir "Dissent"