{"product_id":"9780241290224","title":"Closely Watched Trains","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Hrabal, Bohumil, Pargeter, Edith\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 30 March 2017 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Modern Classics' series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 96 pages\u003cbr\u003e199 x 129 x 6 | 80g\u003cp\u003eA classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writersFor twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech  railway station, life is full of worries: his burdensome virginity, his  love for the pretty conductor Masha, the scandalous goings-on in the  station master's office. Beside them, the part he will come to play  against the occupying Germans seems a simple affair, in Bohumil Hrabal's  touching, absurd masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism. Closely Watched Trains, which became the award-winning Jiri Menzel film of the 'Prague Spring', is a masterpiece that fully justifies Hrabal's reputation as one of the best Czech writers of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hrabal, Bohumil, Pargeter, Edith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42465415430328,"sku":"9780241290224","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780241290224.jpg?v=1734757052","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780241290224","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}