| Closely Watched Trains Translated Edition Contributor(s): Hrabal, Bohumil (Author), Pargeter, Edith (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810112787 ISBN-13: 9780810112780 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1995 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most beloved and accessible works. Closely Watched Trains is the subtle and poetic portrait of Milos Hrma, a timid young railroad apprentice who insulates himself with fantasy against a reality filled with cruelty and grief. Day after day as he watches trains fly by, he torments himself with the suspicion that he himself is being watched and with fears of impotency. Hrma finally affirms his manhood and, with a sense of peace and purpose he has never known before, heroically confronts a trainload of Nazis. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95001209 |
| Series: European Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5.14" W x 7.72" (0.32 lbs) 85 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most popular works. Milos Hrma is a timid railroad apprentice who insulates himself with fantasy against a reality filled with cruelty and grief. After receiving acclaim as a novel, Closely Watched Trains was made into a successful film that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film of 1967. |