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The Economist called Adiga "the Charles Dickens of the call-centre generation" and his villainous hero, Balram Halwai, reminded the Independent on Sunday "of the endless talkers that populate the novels of the great Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal," but in the Washington Post, Tony D'Souza heard the echoes instead of "the pop and fluff of The Nanny Diaries irony."
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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Via the Literary Saloon: "Contemporary Czech cinema began with the novelist Bohumil Hrabal," writes Steffen Silvis in a review for the Prague Post of Jirí Menzel's latest adaptation (you may remember that Closely Watched Trains is based on Hrabal's work as well), I Served the King of England, set to compete in Berlin.
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Related: Kate Connolly in the Guardian: "Lies, legal battles, broken promises and public canings - the story behind the film adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal's novel I Served the King of England is worthy of one of the late Czech writer's own plots."
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Harrison at that instant is talking the way Bohumil Hrabal did in his Prague apartment in 1989.
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville Bernard-Henri L 2005
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Harrison at that instant is talking the way Bohumil Hrabal did in his Prague apartment in 1989.
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville Bernard-Henri L 2005
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But the influence came more from a Czech novel, Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age, by Bohumil Hrabal.
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But the influence came more from a Czech novel, Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age, by Bohumil Hrabal.
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Professor Bohumil Kucera of Prague once suggested to the young
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Bohumil Dolezal, a prominent political analyst, called the government's move "a futile attempt" to regain sagging popularity and divert attention from fierce public opposition to its reforms of health and pension systems.
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Bohumil Dolezal, a prominent political analyst, called the government's move "a futile attempt" to regain sagging popularity and divert attention from fierce public opposition to its reforms of health and pension systems.
The Seattle Times 2011
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