The little town where time stood still - Bohumil Hrabal

'Folks, life is beautiful! Bring on the drinks, I'm sticking around till I'm ninety! Do you hear?'

A
young boy grows up in a sleepy Czech community where little changes.
His raucous, mischievous Uncle Pepin came to stay with the family years
ago, and never left. But the outside world is encroaching on their
close-knit town - first in the shape of German occupiers, and then with
the new Communist order. Elegiac and moving, Bohumil Hrabal's gem-like
portrayal of the passing of an age is filled with wit, life and
tenderness.

'What is unique about Hrabal is his capacity for joy' Milan Kundera

'Even
in a town where nothing happens, Hrabal's meticulous and exuberant
fascination with the human voice insists that, as long as there's still
breath in a body, life is endlessly eventful' Independent