{"product_id":"9780241290224","title":"Closely Watched Trains","description":"A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writersFor twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech  railway station, life is full of worries: his burdensome virginity, his  love for the pretty conductor Masha, the scandalous goings-on in the  station master's office. Beside them, the part he will come to play  against the occupying Germans seems a simple affair, in Bohumil Hrabal's  touching, absurd masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism. Closely Watched Trains, which became the award-winning Jiri Menzel film of the 'Prague Spring', is a masterpiece that fully justifies Hrabal's reputation as one of the best Czech writers of the twentieth century.","brand":"Bohumil Hrabal, Edith Pargeter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45748666532158,"sku":"9780241290224","price":319.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780241290224_cb748c67-30fc-42ed-b2ae-ddf669b20917.jpg?v=1707236348","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780241290224","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}