by Bohumil Hrabal · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422630845
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«Yo que he servido al rey de Inglaterra» is the novel by Bohumil Hrabal, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover in 1990 (166 pages, in Spanish).
Ditie, a hotel waiter, rises socially to become a millionaire and loses everything in Prague during the German invasion and the communist victory. With black humor, Hrabal intertwines personal ambition with historical events, in a narrative that combines the political and the intimate.
Translation from Czech by Jitka Mlejnková and Alberto Ortiz, with an introduction by Roberto Saladrigas. Original title: Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále.
A work for readers of literary fiction and Czech narrative, with humor and historical background.
Bohumil Hrabal was a Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century.
