Bohumil Hrabal

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Too Loud a Solitude Hanta has spent 35 years compacting paper in order to save rare books from destruction. In communist Czechoslovakia books are banned. Whilst being a beer soak he also drank the words of the great writers and philosophers ,‘sipping them like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in him like alcohol, infusing brain and heart.' He has saved over 3 tons of books some of which he sells to a professor and some that he gives away to a friend. The rest are ...	View these reviews in summary mode Bohumil Hrabal Message Board Talk about the novels, new and used books that Hrabal has written!