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. A priest dies under interrogation. Twenty years later the case is reopened and Danny is drawn into the investigations.
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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. 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
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Vendeur : Great Northern Books, Minneapolis, MN, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : near fine. First UK edition. First printing. Translated from Czech by Paul Wilson. A novel by the author of "The Engineer of Human Souls." Skvorecky was one of the Czech dissident writer. One corner bumped, else a fine copy. Ships from USA. N° de réf. du vendeur 11346
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Vendeur : Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, Etats-Unis
Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First UK Edition. First UK edition. Pages toned. 1990 Hard Cover. 436 pp. Translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson. The Miracle Game (originally Mirakl) is a Czech novel by Josef ?kvorecky published in 1972 by Sixty Eight Publishers in Toronto, Canada. It was translated into English in 1990 by Paul Wilson, and according to The Times is Skvorecky's masterpiece.[1] It was his response to Prague Spring events of 1968 Czechoslovakia.[2] and contains unflattering references to real people, Future Czech President Vaclav Havel becomes "the world-famous playwright Hejl", the writer Bohumil Hrabal appears as the "gifted non-party novelist Nabal".[3] In a Bohemian church in 1948 an apparent miracle is denounced as a hoax by the Communist party. Danny Smiricky (the hero of ?kvorecky's 1977 novel The Engineer of Human Souls who also appeared in the previous novel "The Cowards")[4] was present at the church but slept through the event. Twenty years later the case is re-examined during the Prague Spring.[3]--Wikipedia. N° de réf. du vendeur 2321381
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Vendeur : HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, Etats-Unis
hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority! N° de réf. du vendeur S_460700321
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Vendeur : FITZ BOOKS AND WAFFLES, Buffalo, NY, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Fiction. This is a clean, unmarked, undamaged copy. The dust jacket has a small tear on the front cover. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1752008427499
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Vendeur : The Oregon Room - Well described books!, Phoenix, OR, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1990 Lester, Canadian 1st edition, Fine-/VG+ DJ in Mylar, dustjacket has tiny tear/wear at head of spine, in new Mylar with price intact, no markings found, not a remainder. N° de réf. du vendeur d02430
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Vendeur : Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. N° de réf. du vendeur FORT538260
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Vendeur : BRIMSTONES, Lewes, Royaume-Uni
1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, 436pp, owner's name on endpaper, edges browning and a bump on fore-edges, text clean and sound, Good / Very Good dustwrapper. bumped at spine ends, not price-clipped. ISBN: 0571152678. N° de réf. du vendeur 33764
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Vendeur : Ann Becker, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Hardback. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition UK. Translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson. N° de réf. du vendeur 292307
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Vendeur : Libreria sottomarina - Studio Bibliografico, ROMA, RM, Italie
rilegato. Etat : Ottimo (Fine). Book. N° de réf. du vendeur G5983ds02
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