Closely Watched Trains
eSkvoreckay, Bohumil Hrabal / Pargeter, Edith / Josef![Closely Watched Trains](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/909/9095754/CHSBZCOP039095754.jpg)
Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most beloved and accessible works. Closely Watched Trains is the subtle and poetic portrait of Milos Hrma, a timid young railroad apprentice who insulates himself with fantasy against a reality filled with cruelty and grief. Day after day as he watches trains fly by, he torments himself with the suspicion that he himself is being watched a...