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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

Bohumil Hrabal author Michael Henry Heim translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Publishing:2nd Jul '26

£9.99

This title is due to be published on 2nd July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age cover

This ebullient, gallivanting novella encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence.

Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers, barmaids and balalaikas all play their part in the bawdy reminiscences of Hrabal's cobbler as he charms an audience of young beauties with his tale.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days.

ISBN: 9781529986105

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm

Weight: 200g

176 pages