A novel that stirs together the perfect proportions of humor, history, romance, and myth to bring to brilliant life a people, a time, and a cityEager to escape stifling small-town Indiana, Elliott Black moves to Prague, where he gets a job teaching English.
But the forces that are reshaping the city are also at work on them, and eventually it becomes evident that their idyll must end--that change is the only reality one can\'t outrun..
They explore the dark history and surprising wonders of their adopted city, touring the twisting ancient streets and encountering expats, movie stars, tobacco executives, a former Soviet informant, and the president of Poland.
And he meets Amanda, an English teacher from the theUnited Kingdom, with whom he falls in love.
Together, Elliott and Amanda try to make a place for themselves as strangers in this strange land.
He gets his shoes stolen by an experimental artist who engages Elliott in a number of eccentric schemes.
Elliott meets his students in a variety of pubs and conducts his lessons over pints of local Radegast beer.
It\'s 1998, and the Czech Republic is moving with increasing rapidity out of the shadow of communism and into the wilds of twenty-first-century capitalism.
A novel that stirs together the perfect proportions of humor, history, romance, and myth to bring to brilliant life a people, a time, and a cityEager to escape stifling small-town Indiana, Elliott Black moves to Prague, where he gets a job teaching English
