The pearl beneath the excessively noisy solitude: The pearl of the underbelly

Author: Bohumil Hrabal
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The included "The Noise of Solitude" in this book is one of the author's most important representative works, taking twenty years to gestate and being revised three times. As the author himself heard, "I lived for it, and delayed my death to write it." The second part, "Pearls from the Bottom," is a collection of short stories by the author, also the first formally published work that established his literary status.