I served the King of England
Original title: I Served The King Of England
earliest edition we have, 1989 Picador, 1997 hardcover 256 pages
Sebrané spisy Bohumila Hrabala -- sv. — book 7
A searing, humorous, satirical and soul searching novel, almost picaresque, about a young waiter in pre-war and wartime Czechoslovakia. As we follow him from the failures to the successes, the joys and despairs of his life and his country's, we cannot but empathise with him. His marriage to a German girl does not bring him any favours from his wife's Nazi colleagues, while it brings down fierce opprobrium on his head...
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