Closely watched trains

Author(s)

• Hrabal, Bohumil
• Pargeter, Edith
• Škvorecký, Josef

Bibliographic Information

Closely watched trains

Bohumil Hrabal ; translated by Edith Pargeter ; with a foreword by Josef Škvorecký

（European classics）

Northwestern University Press, 1995

• : pbk

Other Title

Ostře sledované vlaky

Closely observed trains

Note

Rrprint with new introd. Originally published: Closely observed trains. London : Sphere Books, 1990

Description and Table of Contents

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.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA43754765
• ISBN:
  • 0810112787
• LCCN: 95001209
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: cze
• Place of Publication: Evanston, Ill.
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 85 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PG5039.18
  • DC20 : 891.8/635
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : World War, 1939-1945 -- Czechoslovakia -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1938-1945 -- Fiction
  • FREE : Bildungsromane. gsafd
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA33700318