Books by Bohumil Hrabal
“It consists of a single sentence: a monologue being delivered to a gang of women sunbathing topless behind a church. The subject of the monologue is nothing less than the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.” Read more...
Joshua Cohen, Novelist
“I Served the King of England is a Czech picaresque novel which narrates the whole 20th century history of Czechoslovakia – Nazism, Stalinism – from the perspective of a semi-literate waiter whose only goal seems to be to try to get laid.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Bohumil Hrabal were recommended
Kushanava Choudhury on Calcutta Influences
Can one encounter the whole universe in the streets of one city? Kushanava Choudhury, author of a new book about Calcutta, says so, and tells us how
The Best Political Novels, recommended by Joshua Cohen
Through the writing of political novels, writers might hope to speak against their time, says the American author Joshua Cohen. Here he selects five books in which the protagonist undergoes a political education.
