by Bohumil Hrabal · Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481099515
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«Yo serví al rey de Inglaterra» is the novel by Bohumil Hrabal, published by Galaxia Gutenberg in hardcover (224 pages, in Spanish).
Prague, 1930s. Jan, an ambitious waiter, dreams of a hotel and rubbing shoulders with millionaires. His historical miscalculation leads him to marry an admirer of Hitler and become rich when communism arrives. Hrabal portrays with humor and picaresque a shrewd naïf who survives the Nazi occupation and the new regime.
The Czech original, «Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále», was published in 1983. This Spanish edition, translated by Monika Zgustová, is part of the Narrativa collection.
For readers of Central European fiction and absurd humor, and for those seeking an ironic look at 20th-century Europe.
Bohumil Hrabal was a Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century.
