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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

£9.99

Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers, barmaids and balalaikas all play their part in the bawdy reminiscences of Hrabal’s cobbler as he charms an audience of young beauties with his tale.

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Description

This ebullient, gallivanting novella encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic’s best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence.

An ageing man holds court, spinning a single, unbroken stream of stories about his life – loves won and lost, jobs taken and abandoned, moments of absurdity and chance. As he talks, the line between memory and invention begins to blur.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days.

Additional information

Weight 0.076 kg
Dimensions 19.7 × 13 × 0.8 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

176

Language

English

Edition

|Reprint

Dewey

891.86354 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K