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The critically acclaimed author of The Book of Evidence and Kepler offers a panoramic study of the beautiful city of Prague, describing its rich and varied history from the medieval period to the present day, the colorful people who shaped it, and its new place amid the changing world of post-Cold War Europe. 20,000 first printing.
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"Ireland's finest contemporary novelist."
"Mr. Banville is that rare writer who can pack all five senses into one declarative sentence."
"As remarkable a literary voice as any to come out of Ireland, Joyce and Beckett notwithstanding."
Praise for John Banville:
"Ireland's finest contemporary novelist."-"The Economist"
"Mr. Banville is that rare writer who can pack all five senses into one declarative sentence."-"Wall Street Journal"
"As remarkable a literary voice as any to come out of Ireland, Joyce and Beckett notwithstanding."-"San Francisco Chronicle"
"What is unusual-defiantly and therefore perhaps gloriously so-about Banville...is the prose: poetic, sensuous, revelatory."-"New York Review of Books"
"Ireland''s finest contemporary novelist."
"What is unusual-defiantly and therefore perhaps gloriously so-about Banville.is the prose: poetic, sensuous, revelatory."
Praise for John Banville: "Ireland's finest contemporary novelist."-"The Economist""Mr. Banville is that rare writer who can pack all five senses into one declarative sentence."-"Wall Street Journal""As remarkable a literary voice as any to come out of Ireland, Joyce and Beckett notwithstanding."-"San Francisco Chronicle""What is unusual-defiantly and therefore perhaps gloriously so-about Banville...is the prose: poetic, sensuous, revelatory."-"New York Review of Books"
Praise for John Banville:
"Ireland's finest contemporary novelist."-"The Economist"
"Mr. Banville is that rare writer who can pack all five senses into one declarative sentence."-"Wall Street Journal"
"As remarkable a literary voice as any to come out of Ireland, Joyce and Beckett notwithstanding."-"San Francisco Chronicle"
"What is unusual-defiantly and therefore perhaps gloriously so-about Banville...is the prose: poetic, sensuous, revelatory."-"New York Review of Books"
When he was younger, Banville notes, he believed that really to get under the skin of a city one had to fall in love there. Prague, promiscuous and secretive, appears to have offered him another possibility. To understand a little more of himself, he first had to fall in love with a city.
Each anecdote, each site, each person recollected in memory is wonderfully evocative of the place. This is a beautiful book, lovely to hold and admire.
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From one of the foremost chroniclers of the modern European experience, a panoramic view of a city that has seduced and bewitched visitors for centuries.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Pub Plc USA
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1582343829
- ISBN 13 9781582343822
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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