Bohumil Hrabal,Stacey Knecht
"Czechoslovakia's greatest living writer." â€”Milan Kundera,In this moving, absorbing novel, we meet the eccentric residents of a home for the elderly who reminisce about their lives and their changing country. Written with a keen eye for the absurd and peppered with dialogue that captures the poignancy of the everyday, ,Harlequin's Millions, is a sensual delight.,Bohumil Hrabal, (1914â€“1997) worked as a railway dispatcher during the Nazi occupation of then-Czechoslovakia, a traveling salesman, a steelworker, a recycling mill worker, and a stagehand. His novels were censored under the Communist regime and have since been translated into nearly thirty languages.
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Harlequin's Millions