In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates the City of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals, and impossible statues, all lurking on the peripheries of a town so familiar to tourists.
Heir to the tradition and obsessions of Jorge Luis Borges, as.
The Other City is a guidebook to this invisible, ``Other Prague,`` overlapping the workaday world: a place where libraries can turn into jungles, secret passages yawn beneath our feet, and waves lap at our bedspreads.
In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates the City of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals, and impossible statues, all lurking on the peripheries of a town so familiar to tourists