Harlequin's millions
Subtitle: a fairy tale
By: Bohumil Hrabal ; translated from the Czech by Stacey Knecht
Contributors: Knecht, Stacey, translator
Edition: First Archipelago Books edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780981955735
Subjects: Older women; Aging; Old age homes; Fiction; Reminiscing
Work titles: Harlekýnovy milióny
Description: "By the writer whom Milan Kundera called Czechoslovakia's greatest contemporary writer comes a novel (now in English for the first time) peopled with eccentric, unforgettable inhabitants of a home for the elderly who reminisce about their lives and their changing country. Written with a keen eye for the absurd and sprinkled with dialogue that captures the poignancy of the everyday, this novel allows us into the mind of an elderly woman coming to terms with the passing of time. --