Two Murders in My Double Life

Two Murders in My Double Life
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 171
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ISBN-10 : 9781466893986
ISBN-13 : 1466893982
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Book Synopsis Two Murders in My Double Life by : Josef Skvorecký

Download or read book Two Murders in My Double Life written by Josef Skvorecký and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliantly stylish tour de force in which the bright, sarcastic comedy of one tale sharply contrasts with the dark, elegiac bitterness of the other, Two Murders in My Double Life confirms Josef Skvorecký's reputation as one of our most versatile, engaging, and compassionate writers. In Skvorecký's first novel written in English, the narrator lives in two worlds: the exile world of post-Communist Czechoslovakia, where old feuds, treacherous betrayals, and friendships that have lasted through wars, occupations, and revolutions survive; and the fatuously self-congratulatory comfortable world of a Canadian university, in which grave attention is given to matters such as whether a certain male professor has left his office door open wide enough while interviewing a female student. Murder suddenly intrudes upon both of these worlds. One features a young female sleuth, a college beauty queen, professional jealousies, and a neat conclusion. The other is a tragedy caused by evil social forces, in which a web of lies works insidiously to entangle Sidonia, who is a publisher of suppressed books, and the narrator's wife.


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