The Little Town Where Time Stood Still

'Folks, life is beautiful! Bring on the drinks, I'm sticking around till I'm ninety! Do you hear?' A young boy grows up in a sleepy Czech community where little changes. His raucous, mischievous Uncle Pepin came to stay with the family years ago, and never left. But the outside world is encroaching on their close-knit town - first in the shape of German occupiers, and then with the new Communist order. Elegiac and moving, Bohumil Hrabal's gem-like portrayal of the passing of an age is filled with wit, life and tenderness. 'What is unique about Hrabal is his capacity for joy' Milan Kundera 'Even in a town where nothing happens, Hrabal's meticulous and exuberant fascination with the human voice insists that, as long as there's still breath in a body, life is endlessly eventful' Independent

Product details

• Authors: Bohumil Harbal, Bohumil Hrabal, Hrabal Bohumil, James Naughton
• Assisted by: James Naughton (Translation), Naughton James (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.06.2017
• EAN: 9780241290248
• ISBN: 978-0-241-29024-8
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 200 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Tschechische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary