The Cowards
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The Cowards
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The Cowards is a Czech novel by Josef Škvorecký. Written in 1948–49 but not published until 1958, it is a story from the very end of the Second World War in Europe. Narrated in the first person by a Czech at the end of his teens, Danny Smiřický, it takes place in the week 4–11 May 1945 in his home town, a fictional town called Kostelec in northeast Bohemia, close to the frontier with then-German Middle Silesia. Škvorecký's prose is mostly narrative and immediate. This is interspersed with intros
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Novel by Josef Škvorecký
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