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Title: I Served the King of England
Condition: New
Author: Bohumil Hrabal
Translator: Paul Wilson
Contributor: Paul Wilson (Translated by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 081121687X
EAN: 9780811216876
ISBN: 9780811216876
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Historical Fiction
Release Date: 05/31/2007
Description: First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is "an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel" (The New York Times), telling the tale of Ditie, a hugely ambitious but simple waiter in a deluxe Prague hotel in the years before World War II. Ditie is called upon to serve not the King of England, but Haile Selassie. It is one of the great moments in his life. Eventually, he falls in love with a Nazi woman athlete as the Germans are invading Czechoslovakia. After the war, through the sale of valuable stamps confiscated from the Jews, he reaches the heights of his ambition, building a hotel. He becomes a millionaire, but with the institution of communism, he loses everything and is sent to inspect mountain roads. Living in dreary circumstances, Ditie comes to terms with the inevitability of his death, and with his place in history.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 203mm
Item Length: 135mm
Item Width: 20mm
Item Weight: 282g
Series: New Directions Classic
Release Year: 2007

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