The Last Bell Contributor(s): Urzidil, Johannes (Author), Burnett, David (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1782272399 ISBN-13: 9781782272397 Publisher: Pushkin Collection
Binding Type: Paperback Published: April 2017 * Out of Print * Click for more in this series: Pushkin Collection |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Science Fiction - Collections & Anthologies |
Dewey: 833.914 |
Series: Pushkin Collection |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 4.7" W x 6.4" L (0.40 lbs) 192 pages |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/10/2017 |
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Publisher Description: A maid who is unexpectedly left her wealthy employers' worldly possessions, when they flee the country after the Nazi occupation; a loyal bank clerk, who steals a Renaissance portrait of a Spanish noblewoman, and falls into troublesome love with her; a middle-aged travel agent, who is perhaps the least well-travelled man in the city and advises his clients from what he has read in books, anxiously awaits his looming honeymoon; a widowed villager, whose 'magnetic' (or perhaps 'crazy') twelve-year-old daughter witnesses a disturbing event; and a tiny village thrown into civil war by the disappearance of a freshly baked cheesecake - these stories about the tremendous upheaval which results when the ordinary encounters the unexpected are vividly told, with both humour and humanity. This is the first ever English publication of these both literally and metaphorically enchanting Bohemian tales, by one of the great overlooked writers of the twentieth century. |
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