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The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka: A Reactionary Tale of Crime and Detection (Hardcover)

by Josef Skvorecky (Author)
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Boruvka, the melancholy Prague detective (of the End of Lieutenant Boruvka, LJ 5/1/9 and others), has escaped from the Communist Czechoslovakia to Toronto. There he helps to solve a murder of a beautiful, promiscuous woman, together with her stockbroker brother and his girlfriend, who runs a feminist detective agency. What looks like a simple crime of passion turns into an intricate whodunit, involving Czech spies, Nazi war criminals, hired assassins, would-be aristocrats, and three waves of Czech emigres. This satisfying crime story, the fourth and the best in the Boruvka series, is also a playful, witty, and humorous look at the foibles of the Canadians and the immigrant Czechs and the confrontation of the two cultures. Recommended.
- Marie Bednar, Pennsylvania State Univ. Libs., University Park
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Czech

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 159 pages
  • Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc; 1st edition (March 1991)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 039302928X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393029284
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,142,619 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka : A Reactionary Tale of Cri, February 3, 2002
All I can say that the reaction of the many of the readers will be to run away from Skvorecky's writing altogether - this is how to write a detective story. ew Czeck citizen may find it pretty nostalgic with names from the region but for me this is a delatante effort -sorry if I am overly critical.
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