Closely Watched Trains

Name: Closely Watched Trains
Author: Bohumil Hrabal

by Bohumil Hrabal

Coming-of-age novella about railway workers during Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia

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Bohumil Hrabal

Czech author beloved for his exuberant, tragicomic fiction that captures the richness of ordinary Czech life under communism. Closely Watched Trains and I Served the King of England are masterpieces of humane comedy.

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