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First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is "an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel" ( The New York Times ), telling the tale of Ditie, a hugely ambitious but simple waiter in a deluxe Prague hotel in the years before World War II.
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Ich habe den englischen König bedient, Bohumil Hrabal, Karl-Heinz Jähn
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- Released
- 1998
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- Subtitle
- Roman
- Language
- German
- Authors
- Bohumil Hrabal, Karl-Heinz Jähn
- Publisher
- Suhrkamp
- Released
- 1998
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 300
- ISBN10
- 3518394231
- ISBN13
- 9783518394236
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Czech Literature, Humor, Classics, Politics, Short Stories, Czech & Slovak history, World War II, Adapted for Film, Prague, Czech Republic, Nazism, Satire, Communism, Czechoslovakia, Hotels, Wealth, Restaurants, Emperors
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is "an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel" ( The New York Times ), telling the tale of Ditie, a hugely ambitious but simple waiter in a deluxe Prague hotel in the years before World War II.