The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka - Softcover

Skvorecky, Josef

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393332926 ISBN 13: 9780393332926

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1980

Synopsis

Things looked very black for Lieutenant Boruvka in The End of Lieutenant Boruvka. But in this, the fourth and (perhaps) final volume in the series, the sad-eyed detective turns up again, this time in Canada.

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 by the murdered woman's brother, an amiable WASP, Josef Skvorecky sets the Old World against the New, and pokes fun at the absurdities on both sides of our cultural divide. In the end, as an old war crime is avenged, the narrator discovers the source of Lieutenant Boruvka's mournful demeanour.

About this title

About the Author:

JOSEF SKVORECKY is an award-winning author whose novels include An Inexplicable Story, The Bass Saxophone, The Mournful Demeanor of Lieutenant Boruvka, and The Swell Season. He has also written many short stories and film scripts, and is the winner of the 1980 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He lives in Toronto with his wife.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Czech

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0393332926
• ISBN 13: 9780393332926
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164