THE ENGINEER OF HUMAN SOULS by Josef Skvorecky; translated by Paul Wilson; Knopf; 571 pages; $17.95
In 1968, as the Soviets marched into Czechoslovakia, Josef Skvorecky marched out, heading for Canada. On the way, he ran across his countryman Milan Kundera in Paris. Brooding over the Nazi invasion of their homeland during World War II, the Soviet occupation of the moment and the possibility of exile, Kundera sighed, "There's been too much of everything. How much longer do you think we can last?"
Who could have foreseen a decade ago that the two writers would...
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