The Book of Prague - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1912697785 ISBN 13 : 9781912697786

Editeur : Comma Press, 2023

Synopsis

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 Czechoslovakia had stood up to the Nazis... The stories collected in this anthology show Prague to be a city of myriad layers and multiple histories. Famous for its untouched, Gothic and Baroque architecture and its trapped-in-aspic charm, it is also a place that has lived through numerous traumas over the last century and learned to conceal its scars, perhaps a little too well. Just as its landmarks should be preserved, so should these hidden histories, and sometimes the best place to preserve them is in stories. Translated by Alz beta Belá nová, Geoffrey Chew, Melvyn Clarke, Graeme Dibble, Paul Kaye, Andrew Oakland, Justin Quinn, Julia and Peter Sherwood, Paul Wilson and Alex Zucker. Supported by the Czech Literary Centre and the Moravian Library.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ivana Mys ková (born, 1981) ranks among the more talented Czech prose writers of her generation. She graduated in creative writing and media communication from the Literary Academy in Prague. She worked as a radio cultural editor and now is a magazine editor. In 2007, she debuted with her radio play Odpoledne s liliputem (Afternoon with a Lilliputian) and in 2012, she published her novella Ní cení (The Inflaming), for which she was nominated for the Czech Book Award and Josef S kvorecký Award. In 2017, she published a collection of short stories entitled Bí lá zví rata jsou velmi casto hluchá (Whi Jan Zikmund (born, 1981) graduated in English from the Charles University in Prague. He works for the Czech Literary Centre where he is primarily responsible for the promotion of Czech literature in English-speaking countries. As part of this job, he initiated, for instance, the 2020 Czech issue of the Modern Poetry in Translation magazine and organised the presentation of Czech comics at the 2021 Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is also an editor of the English-language literary magazine B O D Y. He is currently a member of the jury of the Magnesia Litera Award for Poetry, the most

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Comma Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1912697785
• ISBN 13: 9781912697786
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Éditeur: Zikmund Jan
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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