The Engineer Of Human Souls: An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life,Women,Fate,Dreams,the Working Class, Secret Agents,Love and Death
Author: Josef Škvorecký
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….Read More
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