Mr Kafka

Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered market that smells of new-born babes, the cacophonous open-air dance hall. Mr Kafka is avoiding his landlady's blueberry wine breath, a stonemason witnesses the destruction of a monument to Stalin he risked his life to build, and factory men strain to catch a glimpse of a beautiful bathing murderess. In these newly discovered stories, Hrabal captures men and women in an eerily beautiful nightmare and their spirit in all its misery and splendour.

Product details

• Authors: Bohumil Hrabal
• Assisted by: Paul Wilson (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9781784871178
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-117-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 9 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Tschechische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, Fiction in translation, c 1945 to c 1990 (the Cold War period), Former Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia, FICTION / World Literature / Czech Republic