Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: Bohumil Hrabal

This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic`s best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers, barmaids and balalaikas all play their part in the bawdy reminiscences of Hrabal`s cobbler as he charms an audience of young beauties.