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title: "I Served the King of England"
type: Book
date: 2020-06-12
rating: 7
author: "Bohumil Hrabal"
genre:
year: 1989
status: Finished
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The narrator's earnestness was the most powerful bit of this. I get that it serves as a backdoor Czech history, but I found it more compelling as an evolution of this man's aspirations and grief.