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Prague : A Novel by Phillips, Arthur is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Prague : A Novel about?
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 financial, romantic, and spiritual in an exotic city newly opened to the West. They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts in Prague, where the atmospheric decay of postCold War Europe is even more cinematically perfect, have it better. Still, they hope to find adventure, inspiration, a gold rush, or history in the making. What they actually find is a deceptively beautiful place that they often fail to understand. What does it mean to fret about your fledgling career when the man across the table was tortured by two different regimes? How does your short, uneventful life compare to the lives of those who actually resisted, fought, and died? What does your angst mean in a city still pocked with bullet holes from war and crushed rebellion? Journalist John Price finds these questions impossible to answer yet impossible to avoid, though he tries to forget them in the din of Budapest's nightclubs, in a romance with a secretive young diplomat, at the table of an elderly cocktail pianist, and in the moody company of a young
Who reads Prague : A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Phillips, Arthur
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780375507878
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Travel
- Rating
- 3.3 / 5 (205 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14