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The Mournful Demeanour Of Lieutenant Boruvka
Amazon.com — Mysterious, Witty, Entertaining Stories ... About Murder. Lieutenant Boruvka often has a serious temperament ... however, he is sometimes caught in circumstances which contain subtle and humourous episodes that are not lost on him. His rigorous training ...More…
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Three bachelors in a fiery furnace. (short story)(Mario ...
Amazon.com — Author Josef Skvorecky Format HTML Number Of Pages 4 Publication Date 1997-03-22 Release Date 2005-07-28More…
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Keynote address: Eastern European literature in ...
Amazon.com — Author Josef Skvorecky Format HTML Number Of Pages 16 Publication Date 1997-03-22 Release Date 2005-07-28More…
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Authors, critics, reviewers. (authors reading ...
Amazon.com — Author Josef Skvorecky Format HTML Number Of Pages 10 Publication Date 1997-03-22 Release Date 2005-07-28More…
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The Bass Saxophone: Two Novellas
Amazon CA — Amazon.ca Despite our supposed familiarity with the 20th-century police state--predicted by Kafka, anatomized by Orwell, and discussed in each day's newspapers--the facts of it still startle. The Nazis had a strict set of rules governing what they ...More…
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The Republic of Whores: A Fragment from the Time of the ...
Amazon.com — one of the best books to come out of central europe The humor in this book is only exceeded by the biting commentary found throughout the text. This is a must read for anyone forced to endure conscription into any army in the world (and there are all ...More…
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The Miracle Game
Amazon.com — The essential modern Czech novel. This is the one. This novel better than any other explains the imprint left on the Czech consciousness by the Soviet invasion of August 1968, described so vividly by Skvorecky. Skvorecky's Best Work This is Josef ...More…
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Two Murders in My Double Life
Amazon CA — Amazon.ca Two murders. Two crimes. Two worlds, interlocked. The husband of a math professor at a fictional Mississauga college is found murdered in his home on a stormy night straight out of stock horror-movie footage. The only clues: a piece of broken ...More…
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Biography - Skvorecky, Josef (Vaclav) (1924-): An ...
Amazon.com — Author Gale Reference Team Format HTML Number Of Pages 22 Publication Date 2002-01-01 Release Date 2007-12-16More…