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T r r t li ttl e t o w n w h e r e t i m e s t o o d s t i l l B O H U M I L H R A B A L Wat c hed Trains $23.00 I n the 1930s Europe is tansoing to the tune of a new age/ but in rural Czechoslovakia Maryska dances to a rhythm all her own. In a town dominated by a somber municipal brewery, she is a colorful and rather alarming apparition speeding through the quiet village on her bicycle, her long, tempestuous hair billowing behind her. Not even her husband, Francin (the brewery manager), can control her, as Maryska shocks the populace with her scandalous behavior, and incurs the disapproval of a proper little town that is blissfully unaware of the cataclysmic world events into which it is about to be engulfed. As World War II draws to a close and communism looms on the horizon, Maryska and her town appear to have survived unscathed. But subtle changes begin to appear —in Maryska and her family, and most notice ably at the brewery, where the new political order creates tensions that tear through the social fabric of the town in ways that Maryska in her wildest days could not possibly have imagined. The two linked narratives brought together in The Little Town Where Time Stood Still comprise Bohumil Hrabal's poignant and witty evocation of the passing of an era and display a master writer at the height of his powers as he creates, in an enchanting fictional work, an elegy for a nation that is no more. BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY The L ittle Town W here T ime Stood Still By the same author I Served the King of England C losely W atched Trains The D eath of M r B altisberger Too Loud a Solitude The L ittle Town W here Time Stood Still and C utting It Short Bohumil Hrabal Translated from the Czech by James Naughton Introduction by Josef Skvorecky P A N T H E O N BOOKS NE W YORK Cutting It Short Copyright © 1976 by Bohumil Hrabal Translation copyright © 1993 by James Naughton The Little Town Where Time Stood Still Copyright © 1973 by Bohumil Hrabal Translation copyright © 1993 by James Naughton Introduction copyright © 1993 by Josef èkvorecky All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. This translation originally published in Great Britain by Abacus, a division of Little, Brown and Company (UK) Limited, London. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hrabal, Bohumil, 1914- [Mèstecko, kde se zastavil cas. English] The little town where time stood still I Bohumil Hrabal ; translated from the Czechoslovakian by James Naughton ; introduction by Josef èkvorecky. p. cm. ISBN 0-679-42225-0 I. Title. PG5039.18.R2M3 1993 891.8'635-dc20 93-765 CIP Manufactured in the United States of America First American Edition 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 t r a n s l a t o r 's n o t e Cutting It Short follows the text of the first edition of Postfiziny as published by Ceskoslovensky spisovatel, Prague, 1976. Its sequel. The Little Town Where Time Stood Still, follows the text of the author's original 1973 typescript M^stedko, kde se zastavil das, as used for the editions by Odeon, Prague, 1991, Sixty-Eight Pub lishers, Toronto, 1989, and Comenius, Innsbruck, 1978.
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