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The Little Town Where Time Stood Still by Bohumil Hrabal (2015, Trade Paperback)

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The Little Town Where Time Stood Still contains two linked narratives by the incomparable Bohumil Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera has described as "Czechoslovakia's greatest writer." "Cutting It Short" is set before World War II in a small country town, and it relates the scandalizing escapades of Maryska, the flamboyant wife of Francin, who manages the local brewery. Maryska drinks. She rides a bicycle, letting her long hair fly. She butchers pigs, frolics in blood, and leads on the local butcher. She's a Madame Bovary without apologies driven to keep up with the new fast-paced mechanized modern world that is obliterating whatever sleepy pieties are left over from the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. "The Little Town Where Time Stood Still" is told by Maryska and Francin's son and concerns the exploits of his Uncle Pepin, who holds his own against the occupying Nazis but succumbs to silence as the new post-World War II Communist order cements its colorless control over daily life. Together, Hrabal's rousing and outrageous yarns stand as a hilarious and heartbreaking tribute to the always imperiled sweetness of lust, love, and life.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590178408
ISBN-13
9781590178409
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204240162

Product Key Features

Book Title
Little Town Where Time Stood Still
Author
Bohumil Hrabal
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Small Town & Rural, Historical
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
11.4 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pg5039.18.R2m3513
Reviews
"Read the stories. Read the novels. Just read Hrabal." --John Yargo , The Millions "Hrabal is a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humour and a hushed tenderness of detail." --Julian Barnes "Hrabal's comedy is completely paradoxical. Holding in balance limitless desire and limited satisfaction, it is both rebellious and fatalistic, restless and wise." --James Wood "Czechoslovakia's greatest living writer." --Milan Kundera "Hrabal, to my mind, is one of the greatest living European prose writers." --Philip Roth "Hrabal combines good humour and hilarity with tenderness and a tragic sense of his country's history." -- The Observer "There are pages of queer magic unlike anything currently being done with words." -- The Guardian "A magnificent author." -- The Independent Praise for Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (NYRB Classics) " Dancing Lessons unfurls as a single, sometimes maddening sentence. The gambit works. Something about that slab of wordage carries the eye forward, promising an intensity simply unattainable by your regularly punctuated novel." --Ed Park, The New York Times Book Review "What Hrabal has created is an informal history of the indomitable Czech spirit. And perhaps...the human spirit." -- The Times (London), "Read the stories. Read the novels. Just read Hrabal." --John Yargo , The Millions "Hrabal is a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humour and a hushed tenderness of detail." --Julian Barnes "Hrabal's comedy is completely paradoxical. Holding in balance limitless desire and limited satisfaction, it is both rebellious and fatalistic, restless and wise." --James Wood "Czechoslovakia's greatest living writer." --Milan Kundera "Hrabal, to my mind, is one of the greatest living European prose writers." --Philip Roth "Hrabal combines good humour and hilarity with tenderness and a tragic sense of his country's history." -- The Observer "There are pages of queer magic unlike anything currently being done with words." -- The Guardian "A magnificent author." -- The Independent Praise for Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (NYRB Classics) " Dancing Lessons unfurls as a single, sometimes maddening sentence. The gambit works. Something about that slab of wordage carries the eye forward, promising an intensity simply unattainable by your regularly punctuated novel." --Ed Park, The New York Times Book Review "What Hrabal has created is an informal history of the indomitable Czech spirit. And perhaps...the human spirit." -- The Times (London), "Hrabal is a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humour and a hushed tenderness of detail." --Julian Barnes "Czechoslovakia's greatest living writer." --Milan Kundera "Hrabal, to my mind, is one of the greatest living European prose writers." --Philip Roth "Hrabal combines good humour and hilarity with tenderness and a tragic sense of his country's history." -- The Observer "There are pages of queer magic unlike anything currently being done with words." -- The Guardian "A magnificent author." -- The Independent Praise for Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (NYRB Classics) " Dancing Lessons unfurls as a single, sometimes maddening sentence. The gambit works. Something about that slab of wordage carries the eye forward, promising an intensity simply unattainable by your regularly punctuated novel." --Ed Park, The New York Times Book Review "What Hrabal has created is an informal history of the indomitable Czech spirit. And perhaps...the human spirit." -- The Times (London)
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2015-013942
Dewey Decimal
891.8/635
Dewey Edition
23

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