Too Loud a Solitude（ISBN=9780156904582）

Hanta rescues books from the jaws of his compacting press and carries them home. Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera calls "our very best writer today," celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word. Translated by Michael Henry Heim.

Bohumil Hrabal was born in 1914 in Brno-Zidenice, Czecholovakia. He died in 1995.