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Books by Josef Skvorecky
  | | Sins for Father Knox(Reprint) by Josef Skvorecky, Kaca Polackova-Henley Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1991 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30787-0, ISBN: 0-393-30787-5 "“Ten more mystery stories by the gifted Czech novelist. . . . Offbeat. . . . tongue-in-cheek entertainment for aficionados of classic puzzlers in the Ellery Queen tradition—especially those who’ll also appreciate Skvorecky’s darkish, edgy texture.” —Kirkus Reviews A clergyman named Ronald A. Knox once set forth a set of rules for writing detective fiction. In ten new stories (two featuring Lieutenant Boruvka), a crime occurs that violat ..." |
 | | The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka(1st Edition) by Josef Skvorecky, Rosemary Kavan, Kaca Polackova-Henley, George Theiner Comp Paperback, 292 Pages, Published 1991 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30786-3, ISBN: 0-393-30786-7 "“Not only are the stories well written, they are constantly witty and engaging. . . . Boruvka has the logic of Aristotle and the tenacity of a bulldog.” —Washington Post A pensive, conscience-stricken man driven to melancholy by the fiendish truths of murder, the Czechoslovak policeman Lieutenant Boruvka is a notable new member of the brilliant-eccentric-detective literary tradition. Twelve bizarre tales—to be read as a continuous accou ..." |
 | | Two Murders in My Double Life(1st Edition) by Josef Skvorecky Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2001 by Farrar Straus Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-28025-3, ISBN: 0-374-28025-8 ""A complex bio-mystery about the Kafkaesque machinations of politics." (Aritha van Herk, The Globe and Mail) In Josef Skvorecký's first novel written in English, the narrator lives in two worlds: the exile world of post-Communist Czechoslovakia, where old feuds, treacherous betrayals, and friendships that have lasted through wars, occupations, and revolutions survive; and the fatuously self-congratulatory comfortable world of a Canadia ..." |
 | | The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka by Josef Skvorecky Paperback, 164 Pages, Published 1980 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-33292-6, ISBN: 0-393-33292-6 "Things looked very black for Lieutenant Boruvka in The End of Lieutenant Boruvka. But in this, the fourth and (perhaps) final volume in the series, the sad-eyed detective turns up again, this time in Canada. Boruvka is working as a parking-lot attendant in downtown Toronto, after a spectacular escape from a Czech prison which provoked an international scandal, when a young woman is murdered, perhaps in a spy coverup. Boruvka lends his y ..." |
 | | The Miracle Game(Reprint) by Josef Skvorecky Paperback, 450 Pages, Published 1992 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30849-5, ISBN: 0-393-30849-9 "This energetic and hilarious novel is made even more important by the current final thawing of the long, Communist winter in Czechoslovakia. The witness in 1948 to a baffling event labled by Catholic townspeople as a miracle and by the Communist Party as a fraud, cynical Czech Danny Smiricky finds himself drawn into an investigation of the event twenty years later during the 1968 Prague Spring" |
 | | Dvorak in Love(Reprint) A Light-Hearted Dream by Josef Skvorecky, Paul Wilson Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1988 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30548-7, ISBN: 0-393-30548-1 "An exuberant tour de force. ―James Marcus, The Nation Here is a wonderfully imagined picture of a little known period in American musical history. In 1892, at the height of his prodigious powers, Antonin Dvorak was persuaded to leave his native Bohemia to come to New York to be director of the National Conservatory for Music. In this exuberant novel, Josef Skvorecky tells the story of Dvorak’s utterly requited love affair with young Ame ..." |
 | | When Eve Was Naked(1st Edition) A Journey Through Life by Josef Skvorecky Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2002 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-14975-8, ISBN: 0-374-14975-5 "By turns hilarious, slyly wry, bittersweet, satirical, and chilling, When Eve Was Naked charts the extraordinary life of Czech-Canadian author Josef Skvorecky. In lieu of a memoir, Skvorecky here has assembled fact-based stories (written over a 50-year period) that relate the trials and foibles of the human heart, set against the backdrop of some of the most dramatic and tragic events to which the 20th century has borne witness. The ti ..." |
 | | An Inexplicable Story, Or, the Narrative of Questus Firmus Siculus(1st Edition) by Josef Skvorecky, Kaca Polackova Henley Hardcover, 182 Pages, Published 2002 by Key Porter ISBN-13: 978-1-55263-368-7, ISBN: 1-55263-368-3 "A fake, or an extraordinary find? That is the question when a Miskatonic University archeological expedition discovers an ancient Latin manuscript in Honduras. But how these tattered scrolls, attributed to a military inventor in Augustan Rome, wound up in the New World 1400 years before Columbus set foot on those shores, is just the first in a Chinese box of enigmas that Josef Skvorecky cracks wide open in his novel, An Inexplicable Sto ..." |
 | | The Questionnaire(1st Edition) Questionaire: Or Prayer for a Town and a Friend (Eastern European Literature Series) by Jiri Grusa, Peter Kussi, Josef Skvorecky Paperback, 278 Pages, Published 2000 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-227-4, ISBN: 1-56478-227-1 "Originally circulated in Czechoslovakia in an underground edition of nineteen typewritten copies (which landed the author in jail for "initiating disorder"), The Questionnaire is Jir Grusa's internationally acclaimed masterpiece. In completing a standard employment questionnaire, narrator Jan Kepka manages to write a beautifully impressionistic history of his life, his family, and his hometown as he obeys--with mock solemnity--the han ..." |
 | | The Republic of Whores A Fragment from the Time of the Cults by Josef Skvorecky, Paul Wilson Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 1996 by Ecco Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-88001-428-1, ISBN: 0-88001-428-8 "In a not-so-long-ago time, on an army base in rural Czechoslovakia, the draftees of the Seventh Tank Battalion gird themselves for the inevitable war with America by practicing tank manoeuvres (or faking them), studying Russian texts (with horror novels tucked inside), and singing patriotic songs (with refreshing new lyrics).Among them is Tank Commander Danny Smiricky, looking forward to discharge and trying to stay out of trouble in th ..." |
 | | The Cowards(1st Edition) (Penguin Modern Classics) by Josef Skvorecky, Jeanne Nemcova Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1971 by Zebra/Grove Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-104767-6, ISBN: 0-14-104767-4 ""The Cowards (1958)" is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. In 1945, in Kostelec, Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in Czechoslovakia. Their trumpeter has just got out of a concentration camp, their bass player is only allowed in the band since he owns the bass, and the love of Danny's life is in love with somebody else. But Danny despairs most about the b ..." |
 | | The Engineer of Human Souls(1st Edition) (Czech Literature Series) by Josef Skvorecky, Paul Wilson, Paul Robert Wilson Paperback, 592 Pages, Published 1999 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-199-4, ISBN: 1-56478-199-2 ""So entertaining that it would be dangerous to read it without laughing aloud."—Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe Engineer of Human Souls is a labyrinthine comic novel that investigates the journey and plight of novelist Danny Smiricky, a Czech immigrant to Canada. As the novel begins, he is a professor of American literature at a college in Toronto. Out of touch with his young students, and hounded by the Czech secret police, Danny is l ..." |
 | | Miss Silver's Past(Updated) by Josef Skvorecky, Peter Kussi Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1995 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-09-935811-4, ISBN: 0-09-935811-5 "His work becomes complicated by the arrival of the Lenka Silver, and the reproaches of his ex-girlfriend, Vera. When a murder occurs, there are plenty of suspects - but the event is most definitely linked to Miss Silver's past." |
 | | The Republic of Whores(1st Edition) A Fragment from the Time of the Cults by Josef Skvorecky, Paul Wilson Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 1995 by Ecco Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-88001-371-0, ISBN: 0-88001-371-0 "Set in the not-too-distant past, this comic and exuberantly lustful tale by the author of "The Miracle Game" is also a savage parody of life under foreign occupation. The conscripts of a Czech battalion prepare themselves for inevitable war with the US - using unconventional tactics." |
 | | Engineer of Human Souls(Updated) by Josef Skvorecky Paperback, 592 Pages, Published 1994 by Random House Of Canada, Limited Import ISBN-13: 978-0-09-938641-4, ISBN: 0-09-938641-0 ""So entertaining that it would be dangerous to read it without laughing aloud."—Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe Engineer of Human Souls is a labyrinthine comic novel that investigates the journey and plight of novelist Danny Smiricky, a Czech immigrant to Canada. As the novel begins, he is a professor of American literature at a college in Toronto. Out of touch with his young students, and hounded by the Czech secret police, Danny is l ..." |
 | | The Miracle Game(1st Edition) by Josef Skvorecky, Paul Skvorecky Wilson Hardcover, 436 Pages, Published 1991 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-57220-8, ISBN: 0-394-57220-3 "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 interrogation. Twenty years later the case is reopened and Danny is drawn into the investigations." |
 | | The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka(1st Edition) (English and Czech Edition) by Josef Skvorecky, Kaca Polackova-Kenley, Rosemary Kavan, George Theiner, And George Theiner Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1987 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-02470-8, ISBN: 0-393-02470-9 "Czechoslovak police force Lieutenant Boruvka, a pensive, conscience-striken man driven to melancholy by the fiendish truths of murder, is wide awake to the strange methods of murder he encounters, in this collection of twelve tales" |
 | | Dvorak in Love(1st Edition) A Light-hearted Dream by Josef Skvorecky, Patricia M. Wilson, Trans Paul Wilson Hardcover, 326 Pages, Published 1986 by Chatto & Windus Import ISBN-13: 978-0-7011-2994-1, ISBN: 0-7011-2994-8 |
 | | The Cowards by Josef Skvorecky Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1980 by Ecco Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-912946-75-7, ISBN: 0-912946-75-X "Depicts the thoughts and aspirations of a group of Czech students during the last week of World War II" |
 | | Miss Silver's Past(Updated) (Picador Books) by Josef Skvorecky, Peter Kussi, P. Kussi, Foreword Graham Greene Paperback, 251 Pages, Published 1980 by Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-330-26098-5, ISBN: 0-330-26098-7 "D Burning Leaves D Making Love: The Picador Book of Erotic Verse D Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee D Cities of the ... D One Hundred Years of Solitude D Nothing, Doting, Blindness D The Obstacle Race D Roots D The Four Great Novels D ... Michael Foot £2.50p Gabriel Garcia Mdrquez £3.50p Henry Green £ 2.95p Germaine Greer £6.95p Alex Haley £4.95p ... Arthur Koestler £3.50p Doris Lessing £2.95p Herbert Lottman £3.95p Bruce McCall £4.95p ..." |
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