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    1. The Golden Age (2001)

      by Michal Ajvaz

      Heir to the philosophical-fantastical tradition of Borges, Calvino, and Perec, "The Golden Age" is Michal Ajvaz’s greatest and most ambitious work. "The Golden Age" is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island... (learn more about this book)

    1. The Other City (1993)

      by Michal Ajvaz

      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 guidebook to this invisible, "other Prague," overlapping... (learn more about this book)