Description: A major turning point in the creative style of the Czech literary wizard Hrabal, a masterpiece written in eighteen days and published twenty years later. The story of an unknown person is also a history of the Czech Republic. A waiter who spent most of his life in hotels and restaurants., he has served nobles, businessmen, poets and generals. He has seen the rich drinking all night in hotel boxes and indulging in men and women; he has seen the poor's palms fluttering in the mud, groping for the fallen copper plates. The situation in the Czech Republic before and after World War II was treacherous.
