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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

• Title : The Miracle Game
• Author : Josef Skvorecky
• Rating : 4.52 (334 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-9-7
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 436 Pages
• Asin : 0394572203
• Language : English

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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Skvorecky's ambitious attempt to capture the spirit and feel of this turbulent era makes for fascinating reading. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Alleging that the event was a fraud, they torture and murder the attending priest. But Smiricky's real role is devil's advocate, standing aside from the unfolding drama of modern history--he refers to himself as a "Good Soldier Svejk"--in order to comment on it. From Publishers Weekly This big, lush political novel spans 20 years of recent Czech history, culminating in the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion of 1968. Joseph moves on its pedestal, seemingly of its own volition. As a writer of well-received operettas, Smiricky has special access to the intellectuals involved in the Prague Spring uprising, and he takes amusing, nasty jibes at the real participants. The Catholic clergy call it a miracle, but the Communist secret police conduct their own investigation. Czech President Havel becomes "the world-famous playwright Hejl" who is

JOSEF SKVORECKY is an award-winning author whose novels include An Inexplicable Story, The Bass Saxophone, The Mournful Demeanor of Lieutenant Boruvka, and The Swell Season. He has also written many short stories and film scripts, and is the winner of the 1980 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He lives in Toronto with his wife.