Description
In the shadow of Communist Czechoslovakia’s early crackdown, Danny Smiricky—once a teenage jazz musician and reluctant anti-Nazi saboteur—finds his life pulled into a dangerous, shifting web of suspicion and survival. When a seemingly miraculous event erupts around a statue in 1949, the story unfolds as a whodunit of moral ambiguity, where every answer raises new questions about faith, power, and who gets to define “miracle.” Across time and upheaval, Danny’s journey traces how art, conscience, and personal reinvention can both resist and be reshaped by authoritarian rule. With Josef Škvorecký’s sharp, humane storytelling and wry sensibility, this novel blends suspense with a meditation on truth, memory, and the cost of living under surveillance.
Available Editions
hardcover
Random House Value Publishing
Published Feb 4, 1996
436 pages
ISBN: 9780517166512
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Details
First Published
1972
Language
eng
Translation
From: ces
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