The Little Town Where Time Stood Still
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From the flamboyant and unpredictable Maryska, who scandalises the town when she cuts short her golden tresses, to the eccentric Uncle Pepin, who always has to have a ready supply of furniture to smash when he's angry, Bohumil Hrabal creates a range of enchanting and memorable characters - confirming his status as one of Europe's greatest writers.
Includes THE LITTLE TOWN WHERE TIME STOOD STILL and CUTTING IT SHORT.
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Praise for The Little Town Where Time Stood Still
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Glorious . . . Hrabal combines good humour and hilarity with tenderness and a tragic sense of his country's history - OBSERVER
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There are pages of queer magic unlike anything else currently being done with words - GUARDIAN
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Hrabal is a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humour and a hushed tenderness of detail - Julian Barnes
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Czechoslovakia's greatest living writer - Milan Kundera
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