Search Results for ‘Czech Republic’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 5 matches found

Death in Breslau

Marek Krajewski’s Death in Breslau is a powerful thriller set in a World War Two city under the control of the Gestapo on the Czechoslovakian border. It is 1933 and the mutilated bodies of a young woman...

Prague Pictures

Irish born novelist John Banville turns his gaze once more towards Prague, a city that has previously provided the backdrop for his fiction. Prague Pictures: Portrait of a City, however, is not a novel...

Prague in Black and Gold

Millions of visitors come to Prague each year, drawn by its rich cultural heritage and visual splendour, yet knowing little of its extraordinary past. Peter Demetz’s Prague in Black and Gold is an incredible...

Prague - A Cultural and Literary History

An in-depth cultural and historical guide, Richard Burton’s “Prague” is more than an ordinary book, as it introduces the visitor to the city unique present day identity and its links with the past.
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Magic Prague

Attempting to go beyond the tourist cliche of Prague as the "golden city", Angelo Maria Ripellino’s Magic Prague seeks to bring out all the mystery, ambiguity, gloom, lethargy and hidden fascination...