I Served the King of EnglandA comic, picaresque novel set against the backdrop of twentieth-century Czech history, about the rise and fall of an ambitious busboy in Prague. |
Contents
A Glass of Grenadine | 1 |
Hotel Tichota | 43 |
Served the King of England | 83 |
Copyright | |
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