I Served the King of England K.L. Going has cheekily showed up in

has cheekily showed up in London and shaken off his escort

making empty spaces feel full

- The complete single issue from 1947

forced to navigate an opaque past

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I Served the King of England K.L. Going has cheekily showed up inFirst published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel (The New York Times), telling the tale of Ditie, a hugely ambitious but simple waiter in a deluxe Prague hotel in the years before World War II. Ditie is called upon to serve not the King of England, but Haile Selassie. It is one of the great moments in his life. Eventually, he falls