Miss Silver's Past
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 Cover of the first Czech edition, with illustration by Karel Laštovka | |
| Author | Josef Škvorecký |
|---|---|
| Original title | Lvíče |
| Translator | Peter Kussi |
| Cover artist | Karel Laštovka[1] |
| Language | Czech |
| Genre | Satire, Detective fiction |
| Set in | Prague, early/mid 1960s |
| Publisher | Československý spisovatel |
Publication date | 1969 |
| Publication place | Czechoslovak Socialist Republic |
Published in English | 1974 |
| Media type | Print: hardback |
| Pages | 268 |
| 891.86 | |
| LC Class | PG5038 .S527 |
Miss Silver's Past (Czech: Lvíče, "Lion Cub") is a 1969 novel by Czech author Josef Škvorecký.[2][3]
Written between 1963 and 1967 (prior to the Prague Spring), it was published after it.[4]
Karel Leden works at a publisher's in Communist Czechoslovakia. He meets Lenka Silver, a Jewish woman with a mysterious past.[5]