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The miracle game
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Josef Škvorecký |
Smiricky, from "The Engineer of Human Souls", is a witness to an event, which the Catholic townspeople insist is a miracle, but the Communist Party denounces as a fraud. A priest dies under interroga… |
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The Miracle Game
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Josef Škvorecký |
Smiricky, from "The Engineer of Human Souls", is a witness to an event, which the Catholic townspeople insist is a miracle, but the Communist Party denounces as a fraud. A priest dies under interroga… |
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The return of Lieutenant Boruvka
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Josef Škvorecký |
From Library Journal
Boruvka, the melancholy Prague detective (of the End of Lieutenant Boruvka, LJ 5/1/9 and others), has escaped from the Communist Czechoslovakia to Toronto. There he helps to sol… |
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The cowards
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Josef Škvorecký |
Girls, jazz, politics, the golden dreams and black comedy of youth--these are the compelling ingredients of The Cowards.
May 1945, a small town in Czechoslovakia. The Germans are withdrawing. Th… |
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The end of Lieutenant Boruvka
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Josef Škvorecký |
From Publishers Weekly
Unlike its lighthearted predecessor, Sins for Father Knox , Skvorecky's latest collection of detective stories is less concerned with style than with a grittily realistic tone… |
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The Republic of whores
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Josef Škvorecký |
Josef Skvorecky, internationally acclaimed for his rich prose and expansive vision, spins a beguiling comical tale of army life under foreign occupation. The Republic of Whores takes place on an army… |
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Scherzo capriccioso
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Josef Škvorecký |
Chronicles Anton Dvorak's sojourn in America at the turn of the century, when he was persuaded by Jeannette Thurber to leave his native Bohemia and become director of her National Conservatory of Mus… |
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