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