` Folks, life is beautiful! Bring on the drinks, I`m sticking around till I`m ninety! Do you hear?`A young boy grows up in a sleepy Czech community where little changes. His raucous, mischievous Uncle Pepin came to stay with the family years ago, & never left. But the outside world is encroaching on their close-knit town
- first in the shape of German occupiers, & then with the new Communist order. Elegiac & moving, Bohumil Hrabal`s gem-like portrayal of the passing of an age is filled with wit, life & tenderness. ` What is unique about Hrabal is his capacity for joy` Milan Kundera` Even in a town where nothing happens, Hrabal`s meticulous & exuberant fascination with the human voice insists that, as long as there`s still breath in a body, life is endlessly eventful` Independent