Closely Watched Trains

A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech railway station, life is full of worries: his burdensome virginity, his love for the pretty conductor Masha, the scandalous goings-on in the station master's office. Beside them, the part he will come to play against the occupying Germans seems a simple affair, in Bohumil Hrabal's touching, absurd masterpiece of humour, humanity and ... Read More

A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech railway station, life is full of worries: his burdensome virginity, his love for the pretty conductor Masha, the scandalous goings-on in the station master's office. Beside them, the part he will come to play against the occupying Germans seems a simple affair, in Bohumil Hrabal's touching, absurd masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism. Closely Watched Trains, which became the award-winning Jiri Menzel film of the 'Prague Spring', is a masterpiece that fully justifies Hrabal's reputation as one of the best Czech writers of the twentieth century. Read Less

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2017, Penguin Classics, London ISBN-13: 9780241290224 Mass-market paperback See All from $6.92	1995, Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 9780810112780 Translated edition Trade paperback See All from $12.65
1990, Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 9780810108578 Trade paperback See All from $17.00	1981, Penguin Group, New York, NY ISBN-13: 9780140058086 Czech Trade paperback See All from $14.50