The Cowards

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This blackly comic tale of post-war politics, banned on its original publication in 1958, is part of Penguin's "Central European Classics" series. Zusammenfassung In 1945, in Kostelec, Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in Czechoslovakia. Their trumpeter has just got out of a concentration camp, their bass player is only allowed in the band since he owns the bass, and the love of Danny's life is in love with somebody else.

Product details

• Authors: Josef Skvorecky
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.05.2010
• EAN: 9780141047676
• ISBN: 978-0-14-104767-6
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; European Classics; Penguin Modern Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature