Josef Škvorecký
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
The Tenor Saxophonist's Story reveals how all the important things in life are complicated - sometimes hilariously so - by the paranoia of Eastern bloc politics. Misguided romance, jazz, fear and betrayal are at the heart of the stories here, all narrated by a young, idealistic musician. "Truths" cleverly drives home the point that some truths are better left unsaid - especially if one is pursuing a passionate, partisan woman. "A Case for Political...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A group of 19th Century emigres flee the oppression of the Hapsburg Empire for America, where they become immersed in the chaos of the Civil War. Their story is told through the eyes of two protagonists, a young Czech woman who marries the son of a plantation owner and her soldier brother who falls in love with a slave. The novel is based on documented memories of Czech soldiers who fought for the Union in the 26th Wisconsin Battalion under General...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
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".
Author
Series
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Milos Hrma, a young railway junior dispatcher and signalman returning to work at a minor but strategically important Czech railway station. Milos has been away for three months, recuperating from a suicide attempt, and is warmly welcomed back by Station Master Lansky and Dispatcher Hubicka. The year is 1945, the Germans have lost command of the air-space over the town, but it remains an important rail hub for them and certain key...
10) Indecent dreams
Author
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
With the Second World War "at the fringes and uneasy borders of his characters," the author tells of "a German prostitute assigned to Prague, a girl in a Nazi home for orphans, and a young woman working as a cashier in a movie theater [as they] lose themselves in a world of cruelty and collapsing social order while their inner worlds teem with the fascination of life--sexual fantasy, naive idealism, vengefulness, inchoate visions of justice."--Jacket....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
This autobiography in stories, When Eve Was Naked, 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...
