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Overview"In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates the city of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals, and impossible statues, all lurking on the peripheries of a town so familiar to tourists. The Other City is a guidebook to this invisible, ""other Prague,"" overlapping the workaday world: a place where libraries can turn into jungles, secret passages yawn beneath our feet, and waves lap at our bedspreads. Heir to the tradition and obsessions of Jorge Luis Borges, 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 we are blind to, being caught in our own ways of seeing." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michal Ajvaz , Gerald TurnerPublisher: Dalkey Archive Press Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press Dimensions: Width: 13.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 20.00cm Weight: 0.226kg ISBN: 9781564784919ISBN 10: 1564784916 Pages: 168 Publication Date: 23 July 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsReading such a world means stepping inside it, letting it infect you, bruise, scrape, poison and obsess you. --Jonathan Bolton, CONTEXT Reading such a world means stepping inside it, letting it infect you, bruise, scrape, poison and obsess you. -- Jonathan Bolton, CONTEXT Author InformationMichal Ajvaz is a Czech novelist, essayist, poet, and translator. In 2005, he was awarded the Jaroslav Seifert Prize for his novel Pra?zdne? ulice (Empty Streets). He is a researcher at Prague's Center for Theoretical Studies. In addition to fiction, he has published an essay on Derrida, a book-length meditation on Borges, and a philosophical study on the act of seeing. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |