The Miracle Game
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Author:
Josef Skvorecky
Year: 1991
Jacket design and illustration: Fred Marcellino
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Edition: First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394572208
Comments:
The hero of this comic novel dozes in a rural Bohemian church when a statue of St. Joseph begins to move on its pedestal. The clergy call it a miracle, but the Communist secret police declare it a fraud, which culminates in the torture and murder of the attending priest.