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Set in the not-too-distant past, this comic and exuberantly lustful tale by the author of The Miracle Game is also a savage parody of life under foreign occupation. The conscripts of a Czech battalion prepare themselves for inevitable war with the US - using unconventional tactics.
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The republic of whores : a fragment from the time of the cults, Josef Škvorecký, Paul Wilson
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- Released
- 1995
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- Title
- The republic of whores : a fragment from the time of the cults
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Josef Škvorecký, Paul Wilson
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Released
- 1995
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0571173500
- ISBN13
- 9780571173501
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Czech Literature, Humor, Classics, Politics, Czech & Slovak history, Wars, Adapted for Film, Communism, Czechoslovakia, Socialism, Army, Tanks, Manipulators, Informing
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- Set in the not-too-distant past, this comic and exuberantly lustful tale by the author of The Miracle Game is also a savage parody of life under foreign occupation. The conscripts of a Czech battalion prepare themselves for inevitable war with the US - using unconventional tactics.