I Served The King Of England

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Bol First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is "an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel" (The New York Times), telling the tale of Ditie, a hugely ambitious but simple waiter in a deluxe Prague hotel in the years before World War II. Ditie is called upon to serve not the King of England, but Haile Selassie. It is one of the great moments in his life. Eventually, he falls in love with a Nazi woman athlete as the Germans are invading Czechoslovakia. After the war, through the sale of valuable stamps confiscated from the Jews, he reaches the heights of his ambition, building a hotel. He becomes a millionaire, but with the institution of communism, he loses everything and is sent to inspect mountain roads. Living in dreary circumstances, Ditie comes to terms with the inevitability of his death, and with his place in history.

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First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is "an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel" (The New York Times), telling the tale of Ditie, a hugely ambitious but simple waiter in a deluxe Prague hotel in the years before World War II. Ditie is called upon to serve not the King of England, but Haile Selassie. It is one of the great moments in his life. Eventually, he falls in love with a Nazi woman athlete as the Germans are invading Czechoslovakia. After the war, through the sale of valuable stamps confiscated from the Jews, he reaches the heights of his ambition, building a hotel. He becomes a millionaire, but with the institution of communism, he loses everything and is sent to inspect mountain roads. Living in dreary circumstances, Ditie comes to terms with the inevitability of his death, and with his place in history.

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De jonge kelner Jan Díte is piepklein van gestalte maar koestert torenhoge ambities. Hij wil en zal miljonair worden! Als snelle leerling heeft hij aan een half woord en een simpele oogopslag genoeg. Gewapend met een vlekkeloze chantagetechniek, een uitzonderlijk aanpassingsvermogen en een onverzadigbare drang om te behagen, beklimt hij de maatschappelijke ladder. Maar in de aanloop naar WO II drijven zijn ambitie en zijn Sudetenduitse geliefde Lisa hem naar de foute kant van de geschiedenis.

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Merk Red Square
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  • 8717774231258
  • 9780679727866
  • 9780811216876
  • 9780099492894
  • 9780151457458
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  • 10335015

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