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I Served The King Of England

Bohumil Hrabal

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1983
Originally in
Originally in Czech
Pages
Pages 260

An ambitious waiter works his way up through grand hotels before the war, marries for gain and briefly becomes a millionaire under one regime. He loses it all under the next, and ends up alone, mending a mountain road.

Because I served the King of England.
I Served The King Of England, Bohumil Hrabal

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