Harvest in Translation Too Loud a Solitude, (Paperback)

from vaellus

A poetic, philosophical and tragicomic first-person narration of a bibliophile who has compacted wastepaper for 35 years in socialist Czechoslovakia. The heartbreaker is in the depiction of loving ...

from dono421846

Depressing but effective character study of a man who has spent 35 years recycling paper. The books he finds has given him an education in the old school, and he has turned his bales of compressed ...

from AndrewBlackman

The narrator of this book is an idiot. His boss despises him, others laugh at him. He drinks beer all day, and works in a cellar compacting wastepaper. He has been compacting wastepaper in the same...

from Stbalbach

Many readers see this story as an allegory, in particular a political commentary on the danger of banning books in a totalitarian society. But Hrabal was a better writer than simple allegories. Ind...

from lucasdwi

Hrabal captures the attention of the reader with the beautiful story of Hanta living in a contradictory juxtaposition. Simply written, Too Loud a Solitude is a intriguing novel beginning with, "For...