Personajes en un paisaje de infancia

Bohumil Hrabal introduces us in this novel to the managers of a brewery: Francin and Maryska. She is a young and energetic woman, very beautiful, who does everything she can think of. Faced with the earthquake that is her wife, Francin tries sensibly to run the factory, and handle the incessant conflicts with her shareholders, who are very influential in the city, as best she can. As if all this were not enough, Uncle Pepin, a hilarious and recurring character in Hrabal's novels, stays to live with the couple, causing incessant comic episodes, to the despair of good old Francin, who sees his career as being threatened again and again. administrator, who is saved, yes, by the irresistible charm of his beautiful wife.