The Death of Mr. Baltisberger

by Bohumil Hrabal

Book Overview

Originally published as The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, the fourteen stories in Romance showcase the breadth of Bohumil Hrabal's considerable gifts: his humor of the grotesque, his often surprising warmth, and his hard-edged, fast-paced style. In the story "Romance," a plumber's apprentice and a gypsy girl reach toward a tentative connection across the chasm that separates their worlds. Another unlikely love story, "World Cafeteria," features...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810127016
• ISBN13: 9780810127012
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

I would kill for this book

Sometimes late at night I remeber holding it in my hands and reading it. Once, just once, and I had to give it back to the vile Bohemian who loaned it to me, who was vile because he would not let me steal it. You would not be here if you did not want more Hrablania, so, you do not need me to tell you the quality of this book, except it is just as Hrabal as the best of them, and perhaps even more so---the short story seems well suited to the master palavarer. Me, I am saving up whatever it will take to get ahold of a copy.