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All my cats / Bohumil Hrabal ; translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780241422199 (paperback)
Classification	F HRAB
Personal Name	Hrabal, Bohumil, 1914-1997
Uniform Title	Autíčko.
Title	All my cats / Bohumil Hrabal ; translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson.
Production & Copyright Details	London : Penguin Books, 2020.
Production & Copyright Details	©2019
Physical Description	96 pages ; 22 cm.
Content type	text
Series	Penguin modern classics
Series	Penguin modern classics
Note	First published in Czech as Autíčko, 1986.
Note	Translated from the Czech.
Summary Note	In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal bought a cottage in Kersko. From then until his death in 1997, he divided his time between Prague and his country retreat, where he wrote and tended to a community of feral cats. Over the years, his relationship to cats grew deeper and more complex, becoming a measure of the pressures, both private and public, that impinged on his life as a writer. All My Cats, written in 1983 after a serious car accident, is a confessional memoir, the chronicle of an author who becomes overwhelmed. As he is driven to the brink of madness by the dilemmas created by his indulgent love for the animals, there are episodes of intense brutality as he controls the feline population. Yet in the end, All My Cats is a book about Hrabal's relationship to nature, about the unlikely sources of redemption that come to him unbidden, like a gift from the cosmos--and about love.
Subject-Personal Name	Hrabal, Bohumil, -- 1914-1997 -- Fiction
Subject - Topical Term	Authors, Czech -- 20th century -- Fiction
	Human-animal relationships -- Fiction
	Feral cats -- Fiction
Subject - Genre	Autobiographical fiction
Added Entry - Personal Name	Wilson, Paul R. (Paul Robert), 1941- translator.

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