Miss Silver's Past

Name: Miss Silver's Past
Author: Josef Skvorecky

by Josef Skvorecky

Novel about a woman's past revealed through letters and detective investigation

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Josef Skvorecky

Czech author who emigrated to Canada after the 1968 Soviet invasion. His Danny Smiricky novels, beginning with The Cowards, document Czech life and jazz culture under Nazi and Communist occupation with irony and nostalgia.

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The CowardsNovel of Czech adolescents resisting communist ideology through jazz and rebellion
The Miracle GameMystery novel exploring faith and religious miracles in communist Czechoslovakia
The Engineer of Human SoulsSprawling novel following exiled Czech intellectual and academic across decades
The Bass SaxophoneNovella about saxophone player and his romantic and political obsessions