# Closely Watched Trains

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- Authors: [Bohumil Hrabal](https://www.bookquiver.com/bohumil-hrabal)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4129-023-1
- Published: 2017-03-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech railway station, life is full of worries: his burdensome virginity, his love for the pretty conductor Masha, the scandalous goings-on in the station master's office. Beside them, the part he will come to play against the occupying Germans seems a simple affair, in Bohumil Hrabal's touching, absurd masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism. Closely Watched Trains , which became the award-winning Jiri Menzel film of the 'Prague Spring', is a masterpiece that fully justifies Hrabal's reputation as one of the best Czech writers of the twentieth century.