Two Barons and a King

Two barons and a king walk into a bar…

Two Barons and a King

Celebrate the glory of the absurd, the nobility of the fool, and the elastic possibility of the novel in these wonderfully dark tales.

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Baron Bagge, Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, László Krasznahorkai
I Served the King of England, Bohumil Hrabal

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cover image of the book Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

At last, the capstone to Krasznahorkai’s four-part masterwork

cover image of the book Baron Bagge

This astonishing short novel concerns the unfathomable, otherworldly experiences of an aristocratic young calvary officer in WWI

cover image of the book I Served the King of England

In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset of Communism, Bohumil Hrabal takes us on a tremendously funny and satirical trip through 20th-century Czechoslovakia.