This is an auction for CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS, by Bohumil Hrabal.

Amazon.com review:

"Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most popular works. Milos Hrma is a timid railroad apprentice who insulates himself with fantasy against a reality filled with cruelty and grief. After receiving acclaim as a novel, Closely Watched Trains was made into a successful film that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film of 1967."

More very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

From Wikipedia:

"Bohumil Hrabal was a Czech writer, regarded by many as one of the best writers of the 20th century. Hrabal was born in the city of Brno on 28 March 1914, in what was then the province of Moravia within Austria-Hungary, to an unmarried mother, Marie Božena Kiliánová. According to the organizers of a 2009 Hrabal exhibition in Brno, his biological father was probably Bohumil Blecha, a teacher's son a year older than Marie, who was her friend from the neighbourhood. Marie’s parents opposed the idea of their daughter marrying Blecha, as he was about to serve in the Austro-Hungarian Army. . ."

More on Wikipedia.

Paperback 1995.

85 pages.

Very good condition.

The cost of shipping is $3.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.

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