All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
'One of the greatest European prose writers' Philip Roth
In the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an ever-growing, unruly community of cats. This is his confessional, tender and shocking meditation on the joys and torments of his life with them; how he became increasingly overwhelmed by the demands of the things he loved, even to the brink of madness.
'Dark and strange ... It begins with warmth and fluffiness, but soon descends into Dostoevskian horror' Daily Telegraph
'The Czech master exposed the animal within us' New Yorker
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Of Mice and Men
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The Great Gatsby
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A Month in the Country
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Giovanni's Room
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East of Eden
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An Inspector Calls and Other Plays
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In Cold Blood
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Animal Farm
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Alone in Berlin
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Man in the High Castle
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On the Road
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Lolita
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Brideshead Revisited
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The Haunting of Hill House
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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A Clockwork Orange
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Orientalism
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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The Crucible
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Ways of Seeing
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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Tokyo Express
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Death of a Salesman
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The Wretched of the Earth
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The Lonely Londoners
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Things Fall Apart
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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Dubliners
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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The Night Manager
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Mrs Dalloway
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Caliban and the Witch
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The Road to Wigan Pier
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Homage to Catalonia
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Ulysses
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The Go-between
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I Served The King Of England
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Closely Observed Trains
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Too Loud A Solitude
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Closely Watched Trains
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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
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Total Fears
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Cutting It Short
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The Death of Mr. Baltisberger
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The Little Town Where Time Stood Still
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The Tender Barbarian
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Rambling On
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Mr Kafka
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Ich habe den englischen König bedient
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In-House Weddings
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The Gentle Barbarian
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Yo Servi Al Rey de Inglaterra
One of the great prose stylists of the 20th century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover of gossip, beer, cats and women -- Parul Sehgal
Hrabal, to my mind, is one of the greatest European prose writers -- Philip Roth
Hrabal was, for all his eccentricity, a major figure in 20th-century world literature -- Jonathan Coe
The very best writer -- Milan Kundera
A most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humor and a hushed tenderness of detail -- Julian Barnes
A stunningly revealing, occasionally deranged exploration of self, with cat ownership the frame through which that exploration is presented, by one of postwar Europe's greatest writers -- Kevin O'Rourke * Michigan Quarterly Review *
Hrabal, to my mind, is one of the greatest European prose writers -- Philip Roth
Hrabal was, for all his eccentricity, a major figure in 20th-century world literature -- Jonathan Coe
The very best writer -- Milan Kundera
A most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humor and a hushed tenderness of detail -- Julian Barnes
A stunningly revealing, occasionally deranged exploration of self, with cat ownership the frame through which that exploration is presented, by one of postwar Europe's greatest writers -- Kevin O'Rourke * Michigan Quarterly Review *
Bohumil Hrabal was one of the most important and admired Czech writers of the twentieth century. He was born and raised in Brno in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1914. After working as a railway labourer, insurance agent, travelling salesman, manual labourer, paper-packer and stagehand, he published a collection of poetry that was quickly withdrawn by the communist regime. His best-known books include I Served the King of England, Closely Watched Trains (made into an Academy Award-winning film directed by Jiri Menzel) and Too Loud a Solitude. In 1997, he fell to his death from the fifth floor of a Prague hospital, apparently trying to feed the pigeons.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780241422199 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241422191 |
| Title | All My Cats |
| Author | Bohumil Hrabal |
| Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2020-08-27 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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