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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The Best Book You’ve Never Read: ‘Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age’


In 1997, a man fell from the fifth floor of the Bulovka hospital in Prague. He was, said witnesses, trying to feed the pigeons on his window sill when the table he was standing on slipped out from under him. The man was 82-year-old Bohumil Hrabal, called “one of the greatest living European prose writers” by Philip Roth and “Czechoslovakia’s greatest living writer” by Milan Kundera.
I must get my hands on this!
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