Closely Watched Trains

Author:Bohumil HrabalTitle: Closely Watched Trains (novella)Genre: Fiction, Literature, TranslatedPublisher:Penguin Classics; Penguin Random HouseIdentifier:9780241290231, 9780241290224, asin:B01N6QI9L0Grade:retailLength:71 pagesPaperback, 84 pagesPublished: 1965Edition: Penguin Classics (2017)Author: Bohumil Hrabal, 1914-1997.Translated by: Edith PargeterFirst published in Czechoslovakia as 'Ostře sledované vlaky', 1965A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writersFor 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.Includes Foreword from Northwestern University Press edition by Josef SkvoreckyJul 2023 - epub verified by zardox.