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"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. Seller Inventory # 24180
Book Description Condition: Very Good. 1710262996. 3/12/2024 5:03:16 PM. Seller Inventory # U9780571152674
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Seller Inventory # 11346
Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition UK. Seller Inventory # FORT538260
Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. First UK edition. Light general wear to jacket. Pages toned. 1990 Hard Cover. 436 pp. Translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson. The Miracle Game (originally Mirákl) is a Czech novel by Josef ?kvorecký 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 Václav 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 ?kvorecký'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. Seller Inventory # 2321381
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: 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. Seller Inventory # d02430
Book Description 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. Seller Inventory # 33764
Book Description Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition UK. Translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson. Seller Inventory # 292307
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 436 p. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the title page. Sound clean unmarked copy with minor toning to the pages. S22. Seller Inventory # 000763