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Wonderful stories of Communist Prague by “the masterly Bohumil Hrabal” (The New Yorker)

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"One of the most authentic incarnations of magical Prague, an incredible union of earthy humor and baroque imagination." -- Milan Kundera
"Hrabal’s magical stories are comic and human—they are really desires embodied. . . . They inhabit a utopian province, the realm of laughter and tears." -- James Wood - London Review of Books
"The essence of Hrabal’s fiction is to draw beauty from what isn’t, to find hope where we’re not likely to look . . . to show that we are all of us ‘magnificent.'" -- Meghan Forbes - The Los Angeles Review of Books
"An often powerful and occasionally unnerving collection of stories from a half-century ago […] the timelessness of the best of these stories attests to a human spirit undimmed by the darkest of circumstances." -- Kirkus Reviews

Mr. Kafka And Other Tales from the Time of the Cult

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    A Paperback by Bohumil Hrabal, Paul Wilson

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      Publisher: New Directions
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/20/2025 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780811224802, 978-0811224802
      ISBN10: 0811224805

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Wonderful stories of Communist Prague by “the masterly Bohumil Hrabal” (The New Yorker)

      Trade Review
      "One of the most authentic incarnations of magical Prague, an incredible union of earthy humor and baroque imagination." -- Milan Kundera
      "Hrabal’s magical stories are comic and human—they are really desires embodied. . . . They inhabit a utopian province, the realm of laughter and tears." -- James Wood - London Review of Books
      "The essence of Hrabal’s fiction is to draw beauty from what isn’t, to find hope where we’re not likely to look . . . to show that we are all of us ‘magnificent.'" -- Meghan Forbes - The Los Angeles Review of Books
      "An often powerful and occasionally unnerving collection of stories from a half-century ago […] the timelessness of the best of these stories attests to a human spirit undimmed by the darkest of circumstances." -- Kirkus Reviews

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