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Synopsis
Smiricky, from "The Engineer of Human Souls", is a witness to an event, which the Catholic townspeople insist is a miracle, but the Communist Party denounces as a fraud. A priest dies under interrogation. Twenty years later the case is reopened and Danny is drawn into the investigations.
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The Miracle Game
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London : Faber and Faber, 1991
ISBN 10: 0571152678
ISBN 13: 9780571152674
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The Miracle Game
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Faber and Faber, London, 1972
ISBN 10: 0571152678
ISBN 13: 9780571152674
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Seller: Great Northern Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First UK edition. First printing. Translated from Czech by Paul Wilson. A novel by the author of "The Engineer of Human Souls." Skvorecky was one of the Czech dissident writer. One corner bumped, else a fine copy. Ships from USA. Seller Inventory # 11346
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. First UK edition. Pages toned. 1990 Hard Cover. 436 pp. Translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson. The Miracle Game (originally Mirakl) is a Czech novel by Josef ?kvorecky published in 1972 by Sixty Eight Publishers in Toronto, Canada. It was translated into English in 1990 by Paul Wilson, and according to The Times is Skvorecky's masterpiece.[1] It was his response to Prague Spring events of 1968 Czechoslovakia.[2] and contains unflattering references to real people, Future Czech President Vaclav Havel becomes "the world-famous playwright Hejl", the writer Bohumil Hrabal appears as the "gifted non-party novelist Nabal".[3] In a Bohemian church in 1948 an apparent miracle is denounced as a hoax by the Communist party. Danny Smiricky (the hero of ?kvorecky's 1977 novel The Engineer of Human Souls who also appeared in the previous novel "The Cowards")[4] was present at the church but slept through the event. Twenty years later the case is re-examined during the Prague Spring.[3]--Wikipedia. Seller Inventory # 2321381
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The Miracle Game
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Faber & Faber 18/02/1991, 1991
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ISBN 10: 0571152678
ISBN 13: 9780571152674
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