Closely Watched Trains
by Bohumil Hrabal
translated by Edith Pargeter
Northwestern University Press, 1995
Paper: 978-0-8101-1278-0
Library of Congress Classification PG5039.18.R2O813 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 891.8635
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most popular works. Milos Hrma is a timid railroad apprentice who insulates himself with fantasy against a reality filled with cruelty and grief. After receiving acclaim as a novel, Closely Watched Trains was made into a successful film that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film of 1967.
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