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A comic, picaresque novel set against the backdrop of twentieth-century Czech history, about the rise and fall of an ambitious busboy in Prague.

Originally published in Czech as "Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále."

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This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)

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  1. Bohumil Hrabal (Author)

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Original Language: Czech
Publisher: Petlice
Country: Czechoslovakia
Publication Date: 1971
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