The Other City By Michal Ajvaz

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Title	:	The Other City
Author	:	Michal Ajvaz
ISBN	:	1564784916
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	168

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In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates thecity of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals, and impossiblestatues, all lurking on the peripheries of a town so familiar totourists The Other City is a guidebook to this invisible, other Prague, overlapping the workaday world a place where librariescan turn into jungles, secret passages ya In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates thecity of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals, and imposs...

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L'ignorance By Milan Kundera

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Title	:	L'ignorance
Author	:	Milan Kundera
ISBN	:	2070306100
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	240

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Sur l avenir, tout le monde se trompe L homme ne peut tre s r que du moment pr sent Mais est ce bien vrai Peut il vraiment le conna tre, le pr sent Est il capable de le juger Bien s r que non Car comment celui qui ne conna t pas l avenir pourrait il comprendre le sens du pr sent Si nous ne savons pas vers quel avenir le pr sent nous m ne, comment pourrions nou Sur l avenir, tout le monde se trompe L homme ne peut tre s r que du moment pr sent Mais est ce bien vrai Peut il vraiment le conna tre, ...

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Krakatit By Karel Čapek

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Title	:	Krakatit
Author	:	Karel Čapek
ISBN	:	0685513386
Format	:	Hardcover
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Krakatit is a novel on the risks about the abuse of science for human gain The hero is a chemist Mr Prokop, who was able to produce exceptionally powerful explosive He calls it Krakatit, after the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa A special feature of Krakatit is that erupts seemingly without cause After an accident in the laboratory an exhausted Prokop tumbles into Pragu Krakatit is a novel on the risks about the abuse of science for human gain The hero is a chemist Mr Prokop, who was able to produce exception...

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The War With The Newts By Karel Čapek

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Title	:	The War With The Newts
Author	:	Karel Čapek
ISBN	:	1612190235
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	256

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Orwell meets Vonnegut in the simultaneously hilarious and chilling masterpiece from the man who invented the word robot This legendary but previously hard to get novel is a hilarious dystopian satire about the choice between ecological catastrophe and making your quarterly financial goals As both a commentary on capitalism and the rise of fascism, as well as an early wor Orwell meets Vonnegut in the simultaneously hilarious and chilling masterpiece from the man who invented the word robot This legendary b...

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I Served the King of England By Bohumil Hrabal

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Title	:	I Served the King of England
Author	:	Bohumil Hrabal
ISBN	:	081121687X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	256

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In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset of Communism, Bohumil Hrabal takes us on a tremendously funny and satirical trip through 20th century Czechoslovakia.First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book f In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre World War II Prague, who r...

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