The Cowards

Name: The Cowards
Author: Josef Skvorecky

by Josef Skvorecky

Novel of Czech adolescents resisting communist ideology through jazz and rebellion

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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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