by Bohumil Hrabal · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408462163
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«Yo que he servido al rey de Inglaterra» is the novel by Bohumil Hrabal, published by Planeta in hardcover (288 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Ditie, a hotel waiter who amasses a fortune and ends up losing everything, in a trajectory parallel to the history of Prague: from the German invasion to the triumph of communism. With irony and humor, Bohumil Hrabal interweaves the political and personal dimensions in a tale of rise and fall.
This edition belongs to the International Contemporary Classics collection (volume VI) and was published by Planeta in 1997. The original title is 'Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále' (1983).
Recommended for readers interested in Czech literature and twentieth-century historical fiction with a marked humorous tone.
Bohumil Hrabal was a Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century.
