I Served the King of England [Paperback]

First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989,In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple buthugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealthonly to lose everything with the onset of Communism, Bohumil Hrabaltakes us on a tremendously funny and satirical trip through 20th-centuryCzechoslovakia.