The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka
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The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka by Josef Skvorecky
Boruvka is working as a parking-lot attendant in downtown Toronto, after a spectacular escape from a Czech prison which provoked an international scandal, when a young woman is murdered, perhaps in a spy coverup. Boruvka lends his years of experience and hard-won pessimism to the neophyte Canadians on the case (including his daughter, who works for a feminist detective agency). By having this story--his most riveting and funniest yet--narrated by the murdered woman's brother, an amiable WASP, Josef Skvorecky sets the Old World against the New, and pokes fun at the absurdities on both sides of our cultural divide. In the end, as an old war crime is avenged, the narrator discovers the source of Lieutenant Boruvka's mournful demeanour.SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
ISBN 13 | 9780393332926 |
ISBN 10 | 0393332926 |
Title | The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka |
Author | Josef Skvorecky |
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Binding type | Paperback |
Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
Year published | 2007-11-09 |
Number of pages | 164 |
Cover note | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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