Prague Pictures
Portraits of a City
Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, devotee of the stars and cultivator of the spagyric art, who in the late 1500s summoned alchemists and magicians from all over the world to his castle on Hradèany hill, it has been a place of mystery and intrigue. Wars, revolutions, floods, the imposition of Soviet communism, and even the depredations of the tourist boom after the Velvet Revolution of 1989 could not destroy the unique atmosphere of this beautiful, proud, and melancholy city on the Vltava. John Banville traces Prague's often tragic history and portrays the people who made it: the emperors and princes,…
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- ISBN: 978-1-63286-374-4
- EAN: 9781632863744
- Produktnummer: 17520876
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H20.5 cm x B13.6 cm x D2.4 cm 328 g
- Gewicht: 328
Über den Autor
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of twenty-five novels, some of them under the pen name Benjamin Black, and his acclaimed works include The Book of Evidence, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and The Sea, which won the prize in 2005. He has also been awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, among others. Banville lives in Dublin.
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