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  • Journey to the South

    by Michal Ajvaz ...
    Translated by Andrew Oakland ...
    Series series Czech Literature
    In a small village on the southern coast of Crete, the narrator meets a young man who tells him a history of his journey which took him from Prague as far as to the Libyan sea. It is a voyage to uncover mysterious deaths of two brothers: one was murdered during the ballet performance, the body of the second one was found by Turkish fishermen at the Asia Minor shores.On the move, the amateur ... Read more

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  • The Golden Age

    by Michal Ajvaz ...
    Translated by Andrew Oakland ...
    Series series Czech Literature
    The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island in the Atlantic. The islanders seem at first to do nothing but sit and observe the world, and indeed draw no distinction between reality and representation, so that a mirror image seems as substantial to them as a person (and vice versa); but the center ... Read more

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  • The Book of Prague

    A City in Short Fiction

    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

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