Alice returns from her death to act as witness and participant in Prague's tumultuous history from its foundation to 1989. History's losers return to watch the victors enjoy and lose their spoils. An unusual quest for self, for one's place in life, and in the world, a world that is embodied in Prague.
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Höhe: 207 mm
Breite: 139 mm
Dicke: 36 mm
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978-1-914990-01-4 (9781914990014)
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Daniela Hodrová (b. 5 July 1946) is a prize-winning author and literary scholar of French, Russian and comparative literature.
She has written 9 novels, one 'alternative guidebook' (Prague, I See a City, Jantar 2011 and 2015) and several academic monographs on various aspects of the European novel, in particular the novel of initiation, as well as mythopoetics of the city. Her novel Spiral Sentences won the most prestigious Czech literary award Magnesia Litera in 2016. She was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize in 2012 and the (Czech) State award for Literature in 2011.
Her novels have been translated into 10 languages.
