"Too Loud Loneliness" Author: [Czech] Bohumil Hrabal Publisher: Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House

This book is the author's important representative work, which took twenty years to prepare and three revisions. As the author himself said, "I live for it, and I postpone my death for writing it." The novel poetically tells the story of Han Jia, a packer who has worked in a waste paper recycling station for thirty-five years. He picked up precious books from the waste paper pile, hid them at home, and hugged them to his chest. He drank beer like crazy, "sucking on" those "beautiful words" like candy. This is a sad story, the sadness of love and the sadness of culture. Han Jia, a poet who is a worker, a drunkard, and a book lover, later put himself into a waste paper bag, and he flew to heaven on those books.

Czechs say that Milan Kundera's articles are too profound and heavy to read; Hrabal, on the other hand, is like an acquaintance sitting at your table in a beer hall, telling countless strange stories with humor and philosophy. This is the pure Czech flavor.

Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997)

A great Czech writer in the 20th century. This doctor of law designed his life like this: after graduating from university, he served in the military, worked as a salesman, warehouse manager, steelworker, waste paper recycling station baler, stage setter... Only when he was 49 years old did one of his works get published, and he has won more than 30 awards since then. He has a rich life of creative achievements, and his works have been compiled into 19 volumes after his death, which are still popular in the Czech Republic. His 77 books have been published in 27 languages ​​in 33 countries around the world. Most of his works have been adapted into dramas and movies. The movie with the same name as the novel "Closely Watched Trains" won the Oscar for Foreign Language Film in 1966. The movie "The Wingless Bird", adapted from another novel "House for Sale Ad: The House I No Longer Want to Live In", won the Golden Bear Award at the 1990 Berlin Film Festival. On February 3, 1997, the writer, who was about to be discharged from the hospital, fell from the fifth-floor window of the hospital and died.