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Product Description 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. From Publishers Weekly Czechoslovakian author Hrabal ( I Served the King of England ) pens an absorbing fable about a man who educates himself with the discarded printed matter he collects. Copyright 1992 Cahners Business Information, Inc. About the Author Dohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was a Czechoslovakian writer. He was the author of CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS, which gained an international audience both as a novel and as a film, and I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND.