Empty Streets

Empty Streets - Paperback

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Empty Streets

Empty Streets - Paperback

by Michal Ajvaz
$19.00
Sale price  $19.00 Regular price 

Book Overview

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.

ISBN9781564787002
Author Michal Ajvaz
PublisherDalkey Archive Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2016
LanguageENG- English
Pages360
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Michal Ajvaz

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 Prázdné ulice (Empty Streets).

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