Derek Sayer is professor emeritus and a former Canada Research Chair at the University of Alberta. His other books include the award-winning Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History and The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History (both Princeton).
"""Winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Scholarship"" ""Finalist for the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers"" ""Necessary."" * Library Journal starred review * ""Fascinating and capacious, Postcards from Absurdistan surveys Prague’s anguished recent past, raising concerns for its future amid new global conflicts and challenges."" * Foreword Reviews * ""Intriguing. . . . Covering literature, the graphic arts, music, philosophy, architecture, and photography, Sayer profiles a staggering cast of artists and intellectuals."" * Publishers Weekly * ""Informative and illuminating.""---Alena Dvořáková, Dublin Review of Books ""[A] kaleidoscopic romp across five decades of intellectual, artistic, cultural, and political foment and creativity in Prague, from the Nazi Anschluss to the collapse of communism. . . . The book offers a magnificent and expansive collection of close readings, insightful narratives, obscure gems, and sometimes-funny, sometimes-wrenching reflections on Prague's cultural elites. . . . Postcards from Absurdistan represents the crowning achievement of Professor Sayer's prodigious scholarship on Czech modernity."" * 2023 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards jury citation *"