{"product_id":"dancing-lessons-for-the-advanced-in-age-9781529986105","title":"Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA trail-blazing, transportive novella that contains all the the energy, history and charm of one man's lifetime, this is Bohumil Hrabal's most unique masterpiece.  This ebullient, gallivanting novella encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence.  An ageing man holds court, spinning a single, unbroken stream of stories about his life - loves won and lost, jobs taken and abandoned, moments of absurdity and chance. As he talks, the line between memory and invention begins to blur.  BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781529986105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 20 Oct 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Vintage Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x13(L)x0.7(W)68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 68\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eBohumil Hrabal was born in 1914 in Brno-Zidenice, Moravia. He received a degree in Law from Prague's Charles University, and lived in Prague since the late 1940s. In the 1950s he worked as a manual laborer in the Kladno ironworks, from which he drew inspiration for his \\\"hyper-realist\\\" texts he was writing at that time. He won international acclaim for such books as I Served the King of England and Too Loud a Solitude. Hrabal is considered, along with Jaroslav Hasek and Karel Capek, as one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century, and perhaps the most important in the post-war period. In February 1997 he flew out of his hospital window never to return.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"Bohumil Hrabal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50837517467865,"sku":"9781529986105","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9781529986105.jpg?v=1793105093","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/dancing-lessons-for-the-advanced-in-age-9781529986105","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}