I Served The King Of England: Featuring an introduction by Adam Thirlwell
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I Served The King Of England: Featuring an introduction by Adam Thirlwell

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRLWELL’Our very best writer today’ Milan KunderaSparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable came true. Its remarkable hero, Ditie, is a hotel waiter who rises to become a millionaire and then loses it all again against the backdrop of events in Prague from the German invasion to the victory of Communism. Ditie’s fantastic journey intertwines the political and the personal in a narrative that both enlightens and entertains.

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Weight 0.202 kg
Dimensions 1.7 × 13 × 19.7 cm
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Paperback
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Pages

288
Publisher

Year Published

2009-8-6
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0099540932

The fantasising and storytelling deliver a body blow of total irreverence to the solemn mythopoeia of monumental historiography
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Hrabal bounces and floats. His mode is a sort of dancing realism, somewhere between fairytale and satire.He is a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humour and a hushed tenderness of detail. We should read him

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