The Other City

Michal Ajvaz, Gerald Turner

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Dalkey Archive Press
23 July 2009

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

In 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.

The Other City 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 Other City-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.

By: Michal Ajvaz
Translated by: Gerald Turner
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 200mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 226g
ISBN: 9781564784919
ISBN 10: 1564784916
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 23 July 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Novelist, poet, critic, and translator Michal Ajvaz was 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 Przdn ulice (Empty Streets). Gerald Turnere 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 Vclav Havel from 2004-2011.