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The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka (Lieutenant Boruvka #4)
Hardcover, 159 pages
Published
1991
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published 1980)
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Unlike previous Boruvka collections this is a single novel, also the melancholic Boruvka doesn't emerge in the story immediately, he's introduced later on by his daughter.
The story is set in Canada were Boruvka and family have emigrated to. One of the nice sidelines is the picture of he Czech émigré community divided into those who left after 1968, those who left after WWII and those who think that the Czech lands went to hell in a handbasket with the fall of the Hapsburgs. It goes without sayin...more
The story is set in Canada were Boruvka and family have emigrated to. One of the nice sidelines is the picture of he Czech émigré community divided into those who left after 1968, those who left after WWII and those who think that the Czech lands went to hell in a handbasket with the fall of the Hapsburgs. It goes without sayin...more
Tole bi šlo v kategorijo 3-4, ampak recimo 3, za ne pretiravat.
Kriminalka na drugačen, jasno prepoznavno češki način, čeprav se dogaja v Kanadi. Par histerično smešnih detajlov, soliden zaplet in čudaški liki. Glavni junak, poročnik Borovnica, se je pojavil v njegovih številnih krimi pripovedkah.
Kriminalka na drugačen, jasno prepoznavno češki način, čeprav se dogaja v Kanadi. Par histerično smešnih detajlov, soliden zaplet in čudaški liki. Glavni junak, poročnik Borovnica, se je pojavil v njegovih številnih krimi pripovedkah.
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Josef Škvorecký, CM was a Czech writer and publisher who spent much of his life in Canada. Škvorecký was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1980. He and his wife were long-time supporters of Czech dissident writers before the fall of communism in that country. By turns humorous, wise, eloquent and humanistic, Škvorecký's fiction deals with several themes: the horrors of tot...more
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