{"product_id":"the-other-city-9781564784919","title":"The Other City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates the city of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals, and impossible statues, all lurking on the peripheries of a town so familiar to tourists.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Other City\u003c\/i\u003e is a guidebook to this invisible, \"other Prague,\" overlapping the workaday world: a place where libraries can turn into jungles, secret passages yawn beneath our feet, and waves lap at our bedspreads. Heir to the tradition and obsessions of Jorge Luis Borges, as well as the long and distinguished line of Czech fantasists, Ajvaz's \u003ci\u003eOther City\u003c\/i\u003e-his first novel to be translated into English--is the emblem of all the worlds we are blind to, being caught in our own ways of seeing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNovelist, poet, critic, and translator \u003cb\u003eMichal Ajvaz \u003c\/b\u003ewas born into a Russian family in Prague in 1949. He studied at Prague's Charles University and works at the Prague Centre for Theoretical Studies; in addition to his fiction and poetry, he's published monographs on Derrida and Borges. He received the Jaroslav Siefert Prize in 2005 for his novel \u003ci\u003ePrázdné ulice\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eEmpty Streets\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerald Turner\u003c\/b\u003e has been one of the worlds foremost Czech and Slovak translators since the 70s. He has been shortlisted for the Weidenfeld Translation Prize of the British Translators' Association and received the US Pen Translation Award in 2004. He was the private translator to President Václav Havel from 2004-2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50662501220626,"sku":"9781564784919","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_27cd07dd-9eef-45ef-90c1-61fffa9e78d9.jpg?v=1733526185","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-other-city-9781564784919","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}