The Miracle Game (First Canadian Edition)

Skvorecky, Josef.

ISBN 10: 0886193427 / ISBN 13: 9780886193423

Published by Lester Orpen Dennys, Toronto, 1990

About this Item

Lester Orpen Dennys, Toronto, 1990. First Canadian Edition. First printing. As New, in as-new dust jacket. A tight clean copy.

Seller Inventory # 63

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Miracle Game (First Canadian Edition)
• Publisher: Lester Orpen Dennys, Toronto
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0886193427
• ISBN 13: 9780886193423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Czech Literature

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Synopsis

This energetic and hilarious novel is made even more important by the current final thawing of the long, Communist winter in Czechoslovakia. The witness in 1948 to a baffling event labled by Catholic townspeople as a miracle and by the Communist Party as a fraud, cynical Czech Danny Smiricky finds himself drawn into an investigation of the event twenty years later during the 1968 Prague Spring

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.