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Empty streets
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- Book Synopsis
- 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? Empty Streets is both a thrilling fantasy and a philosophical meditation on the search for meaning in modern life.
- About The Author
- Michal Ajvaz was born in 1949 in Prague, his father was a Crimean Karaim and his mother was an Austrian Czech. He graduated from Charles University in 1973. During the 1970s and 1980s Ajvaz worked at various jobs, as a janitor, night watchman, and pump attendant and did not publish his first book until 1989. Currently he is a researcher in philosophy at Prague's Center for Theoretical Studies of Charles University and Academy of Science of Czech Republik. He published eight works of fiction and also an essay on Jacques Derrida, a book about Edmund Husserl´s philosophy, as well as a book-length meditation on Jorge Luis Borges called The Dreams of Grammars, the Glow of Letters, and a philosophical study, Jungle of Light: Meditations on Seeing. He was awarded Jaroslav Seifert´s Prize and Magnesia Litera Prize. His books of fiction have been published in fifteen languages.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781564787002
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press, (14 April 2016)
- Number of Pages
- 470
- Weight
- 635 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 140 x 36 mm
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