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  • The Book of Prague

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Jan Zikmund, Ivana Myšková, Bohumil Hrabal, Michal Ajvaz, Irena Dousková, Simona Bohatá, Jan Zábrana, Petr Borkovec, Marek Šindelka, Patrik Banga, Veronika Bendová, Marie Stryjová ...
    Series series Reading the City
    An ex-con on compassionate release revisits his old haunts, only to feel dispossessed by how much the city has changed...The son of political dissidents in Soviet-era Prague is condemned to a life of menial jobs, like working at a local abattoir, unable to imagine his prospects ever improving...A young shop assistant in a tourist-friendly antique shop imagines what Prague would now look like if ... Read more

    $10.26 CAD

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  • Little Failure

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    by Gary Shteyngart ...
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  • Me, Myself and Prague

    An unreliable guide to Bohemia

    by Rachael Weiss ...
    I tripped across the Charles Bridge just before first light, all alone apart from a sleepy pickpocket just clocking on for the morning shift, my heels clacking on the cobblestones, the early morning sky a beautiful deep blue.Armed only with a romantic soul and a pressing need to escape her overbearing family, Rachael Weiss heads for Prague in search of her Bohemian roots, with vague plans to write ... Read more

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  • The Memory Artist

    by Katherine Brabon ...
    Winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2016Winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2016.How can hope exist when the past is so easily forgotten?Pasha Ivanov is a child of the Freeze, born in Moscow during Brezhnev's repressive rule over the Soviet Union. As a small child, Pasha sat at the kitchen table night after night as his parents and their friends gathered to preserve the ... Read more

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  • The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat and Other Stories from the North

    Edited by SJÓN, Ted Hodgkinson ...
    Discover 18 short stories from across Stockholm, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, and more in this epic Nordic short story anthology curated by one of Iceland’s most internationally renowned writers.This exquisite anthology collects the very best fiction from across the Nordic region. Travelling from cosmopolitan Stockholm to the remote Faroe Islands, and from Denmark to Greenland, this unique and ... Read more

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    by Sergei Dovlatov ...
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    by Wladimir Kaminer ...
    Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early '90s when he was 22. Russian Disco is a series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the émigrés in the explosive and extraordinary multi-cultural atmosphere of '90s Berlin. It's an exotic, vodka-fuelled millennial Goodbye to Berlin. The stories show a wonderful, innocent, deadpan economy of style ... Read more

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    by Vladimir Sorokin, Max Lawton ...
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  • Best European Fiction 2013

    by John Banville ...
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    2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banville joins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksandar Hemon's series, and A. S. Byatt represents England among a luminous cast of European contributors. Fans of the series will find everything they've grown to love, while new readers will discover what they've been missing! ... Read more

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