Do You like book The Bass Saxophone (1999)?
These two novellas illuminate two brief encounters with sympathy and humor. In the first, Emöke, the narrator describes a week-long visit to a sort of communist vacation camp, where he meets the titular character, a young woman with a sad background and a fervent belief in a better spiritual world, whom he briefly becomes close to before they are separated by the hard truths of circumstance and desire. In the second, the narrator is roped into playing with a concert ensemble of freaks for an-all German audience during WWII. In both, Škvorecký's elaborate sentences precisely detail complicated emotional and political situations, and how compassion can arise amongst, and perhaps change, very different people.
—Patrick
