I served the King of England
by Bohumil Hrabal
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A searing, humorous, satirical and soul searching novel, almost picaresque, about a young waiter in pre-war and wartime Czechoslovakia. As we follow him from the failures to the successes, the joys and despairs of his life and his country's, we cannot but empathise with him. His marriage to a German girl does not bring him any favours from his wife's Nazi colleagues, while it brings down fierce opprobrium on his head as a collaborator from the Czechs.
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I served the King of England
1990, Vintage International
in English
- 1st Vintage International ed.
0679727868 9780679727866
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I served the King of England
1989, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
in English
- 1st U.S. ed.
015145745X 9780151457458
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Translation of: Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále.
"Originally published in hardcover by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., in 1989"--T.p. verso.
"Vintage books."
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