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A novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune. They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts in Prague have it better, but still they... read more
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Characters/People edit
- John Price: Add a description of this character.
- Charles Gabor
- Mark Payton
- Imre Horvath
- Scott
- Emily Oliver
- Nicky
- Beth
- Karoly Horvath
- Harvey
- Maria
- Kyle
- Karen Whitley
- Julie
- Andrassy
- Bryon
- Krisztina Toldy
- Konrad
- Szabo
- Todd
- Laszlo
- Johnny
- Miklos
- Margaret Island
- Mike Steele
- Rob Roy
- Ted Winston
- Charlie
- Neville
- Janos
- Melchior
- Ned
- Calvin
- Viktor
- Tibor
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THE DECEPTIVELY SIMPLY RULES OF THE GAME SINCERITY, AS played late one Friday afternoon in May 1990 on the terrace of the Cafe Gerbeaud in Budapest, Hungary: 1. Players (in this case, five) arrange themselves around a small cafe table and impatiently await their order, haphazardly recorded by a sulky and distracted waitress with amusing boots: dollhouse cups of espresso, dense blocks of cake glazed with Art Nouveau swirls of translucent caramel, skimpy sandwiches dusted red-orange with the national spice, glass thimbles of sweet or bitter or smoky liqueurs, tumblers of bubbling water ostensibly hunted and captured from virgin springs high in the Carpathian Mountains.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Arthur Phillips (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0-375-50787-6
Page Count: 384
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0-375-50787-6
Page Count: 384
Awards edit
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2002: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.6
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