{"product_id":"empty-streets-9781564787002","title":"Empty Streets","description":"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. His 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? \u003ci\u003eEmpty Streets\u003c\/i\u003e is both a thrilling fantasy and a philosophical meditation on the search for meaning in modern life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichal Ajvaz\u003cbr\u003e was born in 1949 in Prague, his father was a Crimean Karaim and his \u003cbr\u003emother was an Austrian Czech. He published eight works of fiction and \u003cbr\u003ealso an essay on Jacques Derrida, a book about Edmund Husserl's \u003cbr\u003ephilosophy, as well as a book-length meditation on Jorge Luis Borges \u003cbr\u003ecalled \u003cem\u003eThe Dreams of Grammars\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ethe Glow of Letters\u003c\/em\u003e, and a philosophical study, \u003cem\u003eJungle of Light: Meditations on Seeing\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e He was awarded Jaroslav Seifert's Prize and Magnesia Litera Prize. His\u003cbr\u003e books of fiction have been published in fifteen languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Oakland's translations include Radka Denemarková's \u003ci\u003eMoney from Hitler\u003c\/i\u003e, Martin Reiner's \u003ci\u003eNo Through Road\u003c\/i\u003e, Michal Ajvaz's \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Age\u003c\/i\u003e, and the autobiography of architect Josef Hoffmann.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527853510930,"sku":"9781564787002","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_58d3c3b8-f5b8-4f46-b4c6-0371cf3ac378.jpg?v=1731315542","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/empty-streets-9781564787002","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}