(Paperback)
By: Josef Skvorecky
ISBN: 9780099386414
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1994
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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THE ENGINEER OF HUMAN SOULS spins its own story from the torn entrails of Central Europe. yet what emerges is comedy - clack, grimacing and explosively funny, as peculiarly middle European as the despairing wit of prague's own Franz Kafka' Time
(Paperback)
By: Josef Skvorecky
ISBN: 9780141047676
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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.
