Miss Silver's Past
by Josef Skvorecky | 
Love and Garbage
by Ivan Klima |
Judge On Trial
by Ivan Klima |
The Bass Saxophone
by Josef Skvorecky |
The Miracle Game
by Josef Skvorecky | 
Life Is Elsewhere
by Milan Kundera | 
Identity
by Milan Kundera |
The Little Town Where Time Stood Still
by Bohumil Hrabal |
The Republic of Whores: A Fragment from the Time of the Cults
by Josef Skvorecky | 
Too Loud a Solitude
by Bohumil Hrabal |
Swell Season
by Josef A kvorecký | 
Ignorance
by Milan Kundera | 
Slowness
by Milan Kundera | 
The Old Neighborhood
by Avery Corman | 
Traveling Sprinkler
by Nicholson Baker | 
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo |
Anne of Windy Poplars
by Lucy Maud Montgomery | 
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes | 
Out Stealing Horses
by Per Petterson |
The Engineer of Human Souls is a labyrinthine comic novel that investigates the journey and plight of novelist Danny Smiricky, a Czech immigrant to Canada. As the novel begins, he is a professor of American literature at a college in Toronto. Out of touch with his young students, and hounded by the Czech secret police, Danny is let loose to roam between past and present, adopting whatever identity that he chooses or has been imposed upon him by History.