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Closely Watched Trains (book)
- Czech: Ostre sledovane vlaky
- Author: Bohumil Hrabal
- As Noted In: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, B E S Publishing
- As Noted In: Notable Short Stories, True Tales and Mezzobulas, Phantom
Closely Watched Trains is a mezzobula, a fictional work that is shorter that a novel, by Czech author Bohumil Hrabal. - AsNotedIn
By this year, the year 'forty-five, the Germans had already lost command of the air-space over our little town. Over the whole region, in fact, and for that matter, the whole country. The dive-bombers were disrupting communications to such an extent that the morning trains ran at noon, the noon trains in the evening, and the evening trains during the night, so that now and then it might happen that an afternoon train came in punctual to the minute, according to the time-table, but because it was the morning passenger train running four hours late.
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| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 1965/00/00 | Bohumil Hrabal | Author | Closely Watched Trains - published | ||||
| 1965/00/00 | Cesky spisovatel | Publisher | Closely Watched Trains - published |
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| Particulars for Closely Watched Trains (book): | |||
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| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Life | Foreign Occupation | ||
| Narrative Arts | Mezzobula | medium form fiction narrative that is longer than a short story, but shorter than a novel | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Era | Nazi Occupation | ||
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Area of Significance | Railroad | a track or set of tracks made of steel rails along which passenger and freight trains run | |
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| Original Language: | Czech | ||
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