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15 produkter
THE BASS SAXOPHONE
E-bok, 2013
80 kr
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The two haunting, poetic novellas that comprise The Bass Saxophone brilliantly evoke the comedy and sadness of life under the Nazi and Soviet dictatorships. They are prefaced by a remarkable memoir of Skvorecky''s jazz-obsessed youth. Jazz is a symbol of freedom in both these novellas. In Emoke , …
Engineer Of Human Souls
An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life,Women,Fate,Dreams,the Working Class, Secret Agents,Love and Death
Häftad, 1994
227 kr
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'"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".
Cowards
Häftad, 2010
179 kr
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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 …
Cowards
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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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 …
Republic Of Whores
E-bok, 2012
186 kr
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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 …
Dvorak in Love
A Light-Hearted Dream
Häftad, 2026
361 kr
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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, …
Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka
Häftad, 1991
329 kr
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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, …
Sins for Father Knox
Häftad, 1991
320 kr
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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?
Miracle Game
Häftad, 1992
402 kr
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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 …
Return of Lieutenant Boruvka
Häftad, 1980
279 kr
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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 …
Literature and Tolerance
Views from Prague
Av Vaclav Havel, Ivan Klima m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
279 kr
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Der siebenarmige Leuchter
E-bok, 2022
273 kr
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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 …
Engineer of Human Souls
Häftad, 1999
197 kr
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The 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 …
