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Monday 20th May
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Wednesday, 22nd of May
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The Invention of Memory
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  Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal

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  First translated in 1968, this is a real gem. Milos is a gauche young apprentice at a tiny but strategically crucial Bohemian train station in 1945. In less than 100 pages Hrabal weaves his memorably comic and heroic tale. A true Czech classic.

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  I Served The King of England by Bohumil Hrabal

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  A glitteringly comic novel charting the rise and fall of its remarkable hero Ditie, a daydreaming hotel waiter who comes into great fortune only to lose it. Deceptively whimsical, Hrabal here deftly skewers the 20th Century trials of his country.

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  Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal

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  In one long sentence, a Czech cobbler regales a group of women with stories from his past. Lively, extraordinary and utterly captivating.