The mournful demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka / by Josef Skvorecky ; translated by Rosemary Kavan, Kaca Polackova and George Theiner.
Language: English Original language: Czech Series: Lieutenant Boruvka. 1 Publication details: London : Faber and Faber, 1988.Description: 288 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0571149723
- Smutek poručíka Borůvky. English
- C891.8/63 19
- PG5038.S527
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | SKV | Boruvka Bk.1 | Available | 067238 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Josef Skvorecky is the internationally celebrated author of 'The Bass Saxophone' and 'The Engineer of Human Souls'. He is less wel known for this delightful series of detective stories, first published in the sixties. Featuring a pensive and conscience-stricken hero, the stories are mischievous parodies of the 'standard' detective mystery. For Boruvka is driven to depths of resigned melancholy every time the fiendish truth about the murder he is investigating finally dawns on him. Thanks to an ingenious imagination coupled with a mind wide-awake to the possibilities of the strange - sometimes extraordinary - methods of murder that he encounters." -- Back cover
Translation of: Smutek porucika Boruvky.
