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Empty Streets: (Czech Literature Series)

Empty Streets: (Czech Literature Series)


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In a junkyard on the outskirts of Prague, a painter stumbles across a mysterious wooden object. As he begins to notice the object’s strange shape reproduced in various places around the city, he realizes that it holds the key to uncovering the truth about the recent disappearance of a young girl. HisIn a junkyard on the outskirts of Prague, a painter stumbles across a mysterious wooden object. As he begins to notice the object’s strange shape reproduced in various places around the city, he realizes that it holds the key to uncovering the truth about the recent disappearance of a young girl. attempts to understand the meaning of the object bring him into contact with an array of characters, and the stories they tell him widen the vortex of uncertainty that the object has opened. Will the increasingly intricate web of clues eventually lead him to the truth? Empty Streets is both a thrilling fantasy and a philosophical meditation on the search for meaning in modern life.

About the Author :
Michal Ajvaz was born in 1949 in Prague, his father was a Crimean Karaim and his mother was an Austrian Czech. He published eight works of fiction and also an essay on Jacques Derrida, a book about Edmund Husserl's philosophy, as well as a book-length meditation on Jorge Luis Borges called The Dreams of Grammars, the Glow of Letters, and a philosophical study, Jungle of Light: Meditations on Seeing. He was awarded Jaroslav Seifert's Prize and Magnesia Litera Prize. His books of fiction have been published in fifteen languages. Andrew Oakland's translations include Radka Denemarkov's Money from Hitler, Martin Reiner's No Through Road, Michal Ajvaz's The Golden Age, and the autobiography of architect Josef Hoffmann.

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As easy as it is to read through with rapt attention, this novel would definitely benefit from rereadings and re-examinations. A remarkably creative, joyfully strange work.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781564787002
  • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 03
  • Returnable: 03
  • ISBN-10: 1564787001
  • Publisher Date: 12 May 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 360
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: Czech Literature Series


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