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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 ... More
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Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most beloved and accessible works. Closely Watched Trains is the ... More
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As adventuresome, episodic, bawdy, comic, and literary as any novel written in the past twenty-five years, The Engineer of Human Souls is worthy of the subtitle Skvorecky gave ... More
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This comic novel about love, lust, faith, treachery, martyrdom and miracles spans 20 years of recent Czech history, culminating in the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion ... More
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From the internationally acclaimed writer Josef Skvorecky comes the first in a series of linked detective tales featuring a highly intelligent member of theCzechoslovak police ... More
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Set against the backdrop of two class reunions one in 1963, and the next in 1993, 30 years later Ordinary Lives resurrects Skvorecky s former narrator and alter ego, Danny ... More
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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 ... More
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The most comprehensive collection to date of Josef Skvorecky's short fiction, When Eve Was Naked is a wonderful introduction to a writer internationally acclaimed for his ... More
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