The Cowards

ISBN-13: 9780141047676 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 416 str.

Josef Skvorecky

Opis

Set in May 1945 in a small Czech town. The Germans are withdrawing, the Red Army is advancing, and Danny Smiricky is being forced to grow up fast. Observing with contempt the antics of the town's senior citizens playing it safe, he adopts the role first of reluctant conscript then partisan.

Recenzje

Anyone who wants to know how it felt to be young, idealistic and innocent at the end of the war should read The Cowards The Times Literary Supplement

O autorze

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.