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The Cowards
Josef Skvorecky
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Description for The Cowards
Paperback. In 1945, in Kostelec, Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in Czechoslovakia. Their trumpeter has just got out of a concentration camp, their bass player is only allowed in the band since he owns the bass, and the love of Danny's life is in love with somebody else. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 314.
The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. In 1945, in Kostelec,Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in Czechoslovakia. Their trumpeter has just got out of a concentration camp, their bass player is only allowed in the band since he owns the bass, and the love of Danny's life is in love with somebody else. But Danny despairs most about the bourgeoisie patriots in his town playing at revolution in the face of the approaching Red Army - not least because it ruins the band's chance of ... Read more
The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. In 1945, in Kostelec,Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in Czechoslovakia. Their trumpeter has just got out of a concentration camp, their bass player is only allowed in the band since he owns the bass, and the love of Danny's life is in love with somebody else. But Danny despairs most about the bourgeoisie patriots in his town playing at revolution in the face of the approaching Red Army - not least because it ruins the band's chance of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141047676
SKU
V9780141047676
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About Josef Skvorecky
Josef Skvorecky (born in 1924) was a leading Czech novelist and dissident, a key figure in keeping alive from exile a liberal, humanistic Czech culture during the Cold War. His most famous novels are The Cowards, Miss Silver's Past, The Bass Saxophone and The Engineer of Human Souls. He died in 2012, at the age of eighty-seven.
Reviews for The Cowards
This new series of Central European Classics is important well beyond simply providing 'good reads'.
Stephen Vizinczey
Daily Telegraph
I urge you to go and read them.
Adam Thirlwell
New Statesman
This [series] is a wonderful idea ... They are absurdist parables, by turns hilarious, unsettling and enigmatic.
Nicholas Lezard
Guardian
... Read more
Stephen Vizinczey
Daily Telegraph
I urge you to go and read them.
Adam Thirlwell
New Statesman
This [series] is a wonderful idea ... They are absurdist parables, by turns hilarious, unsettling and enigmatic.
Nicholas Lezard
Guardian
... Read more