Penguin: The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on... Zobraziť viac
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. Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
