{"product_id":"hochzeiten-im-hause-1993","title":"Hochzeiten im Hause","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHRABAL, Bohumil.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHochzeiten im Hause. Ein Mädchenroman.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST GERMAN EDITION.\u003c\/strong\u003e Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText in German, translated from the Czech by Susanna Roth. 8vo. 454 pp. Cloth; in the publisher's pictorial dust jacket designed by Hermann Michels, reproducing Jiří Kolář's collage \u003cem\u003eBegegnung\u003c\/em\u003e from the cycle \u003cem\u003eTagebuch 1968\u003c\/em\u003e. Stated first edition (“Erste Auflage 1993”). ISBN 3-518-40530-6.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn autobiographical novel in two parts, and the strangeness of it is that Hrabal writes in his wife's voice: she tells the story of their meeting, his courting, her hesitation, the wedding, and then the odd marriage that followed — the friends and neighbours and colleagues, what each partner could and could not give the other, and what it was like to live beside a man who was writing. The first part is told as a conventional narrative; the second, \u003cem\u003eVita nuova\u003c\/em\u003e, runs as an unpunctuated stream. The Czech originals, \u003cem\u003eSvatby v domě\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVita nuova\u003c\/em\u003e, were published in 1988 by Sixty-Eight Publishers in Toronto — the press Josef Škvorecký and Zdena Salivarová founded in 1971 to print Czech and Slovak writers banned under the communist regime, and which issued more than two hundred titles before 1989. This one-volume German edition was abridged with the author's agreement, and does not include the third part of the sequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-152\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hrabal, Bohumil","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46888613249185,"sku":"TO-2026-152","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-152_01.jpg?v=1786923625","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/hochzeiten-im-hause-1993","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}