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'As I crammed the cream horn voraciously into my mouth, at once I heard Francin's voice saying that no decent woman would eat a cream puff like that'

In a quiet town where not much happens, Maryska, the flamboyant brewer's wife, stands out. She cuts her skirt short so that she can ride her bicycle, her golden hair flying out behind her. She butchers pigs. She drinks and eats with relish. And when the garrulous ranconteur Uncle Pepin comes to visit the locals are scandalized even further, in Bohumil Hrabal's affecting, exuberant portrayal of a small central European community between the wars.

'One of the greatest European prose writers' Philip Roth

'Hrabal combines good humour and hilarity with tenderness' Observer

Cutting It Short

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'As I crammed the cream horn voraciously into my mouth, at once I heard Francin's voice saying that no decent... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 29/06/2017
    ISBN13: 9780241290262, 978-0241290262
    ISBN10: 0241290260

    Number of Pages: 112

    Fiction , Classics

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    'As I crammed the cream horn voraciously into my mouth, at once I heard Francin's voice saying that no decent woman would eat a cream puff like that'

    In a quiet town where not much happens, Maryska, the flamboyant brewer's wife, stands out. She cuts her skirt short so that she can ride her bicycle, her golden hair flying out behind her. She butchers pigs. She drinks and eats with relish. And when the garrulous ranconteur Uncle Pepin comes to visit the locals are scandalized even further, in Bohumil Hrabal's affecting, exuberant portrayal of a small central European community between the wars.

    'One of the greatest European prose writers' Philip Roth

    'Hrabal combines good humour and hilarity with tenderness' Observer

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