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Sieben Erzählungen, so viele, wie Kerzen am siebenarmigen Leuchter brennen: eine Erinnerung an eine untergegangene tschechisch-jüdisch-deutsche Welt in einer ostböhmischen Kleinstadt. Danny, ein leidenschaftlicher Saxophonspieler und empathischer Erzähler, trifft sich mit seiner großen Liebe, der Holocaust-Überlebenden Rebekka. Er erinnert sich an seine Kindheit im Städtchen K. Vor den Augen des Lesers entsteht ein buntes Kaleidoskop kleinst...

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This blackly comic tale of post-war politics, banned on its original publication in 1958, is part of Penguin's "Central European Classics" series.

Set in May 1945 in a small Czech town. The Germans are withdrawing, the Red Army is advancing, and Danny Smiricky is being forced to grow up fast. Observing with contempt the antics of the town's senior citizens playing it safe, he adopts the role first of reluctant conscript then partisan.

THE ENGINEER OF HUMAN SOULS spins its own story from the torn entrails of Central Europe. yet what emerges is comedy - clack, grimacing and explosively funny, as peculiarly middle European as the despairing wit of prague's own Franz Kafka' Time

Set in Czechoslovakia during 1968, Boruvka is puzzled by the younger generation - it is the time of sexual revolution and experimentation with LSD. The sad detective is on the trail of another murderer. This volume follows "The Mournful Demeanor of Lieutenant Boruvka" and "Sins for Father Knox".

This energetic and hilarious novel is made even more important by the current final thawing of the long, Communist winter in Czechoslovakia. Moving between 1948, when our hero Danny Smiricky falls asleep in church while a miraculous event occurs, and 1968, when he observes the miracle of Prague Spring, The Miracle Game is a sharp look at the strange, sad, and silly things people do to survive.

Mai 1945. Das "Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren" ist Vergangenheit, und im Städtchen Kostelec kann wieder Ruhe einkehren. Bevor es aber soweit ist, muß noch ziemlich viel erledigt werden. Danny Smirický steht mitten im aufregenden Trubel, bereitet mit seinen Orchesterfreunden den Aufstand vor, kümmert sich um freigelassene britische Gefangene und befördert einen Panzer der SS in den Graben. Dabei macht er das alles nur wegen Irena, die ihn immer ...

Danny Smiricky ist sechzehn. Und folglich hinter den Mädchen her. Seine Favoritinnen wechseln: An die zwanzig Versuche hat Danny schon unternommen, lauter Fehlschläge, aber diesmal - das steht für ihn fest - muß es mädchenmäßig eine prima Saison werden. Heiter, jugendlich leichtlebig, scheinbar unbeschwert läßt sich dieser Roman an. Doch die reine Idylle oder schlichte nostalgische Verklärung ist die Geschichte keineswegs. Denn sie spielt in j...

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So entertaining that it would be dangerous to read it without laughing aloud."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

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 America, the anthem of which is his famous Symphony in E Minor, ...

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 account-involve theatrical people, musicians, and mountaineers, who lead the lieutenant, and the reader, on an ingenious chase through the paths of crime.

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 years of experience and hard-won pessimism to the neophyte Canadians on the case (including his daughter, who works for a feminist detective agency). By having this story--his most riveting and funniest yet--narrated...

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 violates one of Father Knox's rules, thus serving up a double challenge: Who dunnit? and Which rule was broken?

This autobiography in stories takes us through a most remarkable life, from the innocence of prewar Prague through the horrors of the Nazi occupation and World War II. In the title story, narrated by Skvorecky’, s alter-ego Danny Smiricky, seven-year-old Danny falls in love for the first time, at sixteen he hides in a railway station and watches as his Jewish teacher is herded onto a train and taken away, and in 1968, as Russian tanks rol...