The Cowards
The Cowards | Rare and modern books | Skvorecky Josef
Rare and modern books
Skvorecky Josef
Penguin 2010 (Penguin Modern Classics),
The Cowards
The Cowards | Rare and modern books | Skvorecky Josef
Rare and modern books
Skvorecky Josef
Penguin 2010 (Penguin Modern Classics),
18.00 €
(Roma,
Italy)
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Details
- Author
- Skvorecky Josef
- Publishers
- Penguin 2010 (Penguin Modern Classics)
- Binding description
- S
- Dust jacket
- False
- State of preservation
- As New
- Binding
- Softcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
br. ed. The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. 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. But Danny despairs most about the bourgeoisie patriots in his town playing at revolution in the face of the approaching Red Army - not least because it ruins the band's chance of any good gigs.
