Miss Silver's Past

by Josef Skvorecky

Published 11 March 1976

'"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".

The Swell Season

by Josef Skvorecky

Published June 1983