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"The Other City" explores a hidden, parallel Prague, infusing the city with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals, and impossible statues that hover around its wellβknown streets. The novel functions as a guide to this unseen realm, where libraries turn into jungles, secret passages open beneath our feet, and waves ripple across bedspreads. In the spirit of Borges and Czech fantasy traditions, Michal Ajvaz invites readers to confront the invisible corners of a world most of us take for granted.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Michal Ajvaz
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