First published in 1964, this Rabelaisian tale is composed of a single rambling sentence by the narrator, a shoemaker nearing 70 years of age. He gives a lengthy monologue to six sunbathing women. Bohumil Hrabal is the author of Closely Observed Trains and I Served the King of England.
- ISBN10 0151238103
- ISBN13 9780151238101
- Publish Date 11 September 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 November 2009
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Elsevier Australia
- Imprint Harcourt Publishers Group (Australia) Pty.Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 117
- Language English