# Mr Kafka

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- Book: [Mr Kafka](https://www.bookquiver.com/bohumil-hrabal/mr-kafka) ([Mr Kafka.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bohumil-hrabal/mr-kafka.md))
- Authors: [Bohumil Hrabal](https://www.bookquiver.com/bohumil-hrabal)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Translated by: Paul Wilson
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7354-507-6
- Published: 2016-03-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered market that smells of new-born babes, the cacophonous open-air dance hall. Mr Kafka is avoiding his landlady’s blueberry wine breath, a stonemason witnesses the destruction of a monument to Stalin he risked his life to build, and factory men strain to catch a glimpse of a beautiful bathing murderess. In these newly discovered stories, Hrabal captures men and women in an eerily beautiful nightmare and their spirit in all its misery and splendour.