The Other City
( Czech - Druhé město - 1993 )
novel by Michal Ajvaz
translated by Gerald Turner
Published: Dalkey Archive Press - trade paperback - 2009
ISBN: 1564784916 / 9781564784919
synopsis
In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates th city of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals and impossible statues, all lurking on the peripheries of a town to familiar to tourists. Heir to the tradition and obsessions of Jorge Luis Broges, as well as the long and distinguished line of Czech fantasists, Ajvaz's Other City - his first novel to be translated into English - is the emblem of all the worlds people too caught up in their own ways of seeing can be blind to.
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( Czech - Druhé město - 1993 )
novel by Michal Ajvaz
translated by Gerald Turner
Published: Dalkey Archive Press - trade paperback - 2009
ISBN: 1564784916 / 9781564784919
synopsis
In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates th city of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals and impossible statues, all lurking on the peripheries of a town to familiar to tourists. Heir to the tradition and obsessions of Jorge Luis Broges, as well as the long and distinguished line of Czech fantasists, Ajvaz's Other City - his first novel to be translated into English - is the emblem of all the worlds people too caught up in their own ways of seeing can be blind to.
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