Too Loud a Solitude

Hantá rescues books from the jaws of his compacting press and carries them home. Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera calls “our very best writer today,” celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word. Translated by Michael Henry Heim.

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• Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (New York Review Books Classics)
• Near to the Wild Heart (Ndp; 1225)
• A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, and a Raven
• I Served the King of England (New Directions Classic)
• Rock 'n' Roll: A New Play
• Possession
• Closely Watched Trains (European Classics)
• The Mountain Lion (New York Review Books Classics)
• Angels: A Novel