The Other City Argentinian Literature Series

The Other City Argentinian Literature SeriesIn 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 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. The Other City is a

"A gloomy feel-good novel about the irreparable loneliness of being human

As presented alongside Greg Klassen’s brilliant charcoal illustrations

Born in Albany

the novel is also a penetrating look into the objectification of women

that Triangle is suffused with a similar sense of paranoia-inducing conspiracy even in its original Japanese

on the other

the people they’re supposedly fighting for treat them with indifference

never ever find your way out again

as well as the troubled Slovenian times before and during World War II

Ruth broods on what it means to be a woman ("nature's oven for nature's bun") and the inequalities between the sexes

By Carole Maso

Lobo Antunes is also a Commandeur de l’Order des Arts et des Lettres in France and a Knight of the Grand Cross in the Order of St