The Miracle Game by Josef. Skvorecky

This energetic and hilarious novel is made even more important by the current final thawing of the long, Communist winter in Czechoslovakia.

The witness in 1948 to a baffling event labled by Catholic townspeople as a miracle and by the Communist Party as a fraud, cynical Czech Danny Smiricky finds himself drawn into an investigation of the event twenty years later during the 1968 Prague Spring