"Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal\'s later virtuosity." -- New Yorker "A collection of formative fiction from a writer whose work has earned comparison with Joyce and Beckett.
Early work from a writer who merits a larger readership." -- Kirkus Reviews This collection of the earliest Prose by one of literature\'s greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Mar chal put it, "the moment when Hrabal discovered the magic of wri. . . . "Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal\'s later virtuosity." -- New Yorker "A collection of formative fiction from a writer whose work has earned comparison with Joyce and Beckett