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| Author 1 | John Banville |
| Editorial Review | Ireland"s finest contemporary novelist."-"The Economist" "Mr. Banville is that rare writer who can pack all five senses into one declarative sentence."-"Wall Street Journal" "As remarkable a literary voice as any to come out of Ireland, Joyce and Beckett notwithstanding."-"San Francisco Chronicle" "What is unusual-defiantly and therefore perhaps gloriously so-about Banville...is the prose poetic, sensuous, revelatory."-"New York Review of Books" |
| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 13 October 2015 |
| About the Author | John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of twenty-five novels, some of them under the pen name Benjamin Black, and his acclaimed works include The Book of Evidence, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and The Sea, which won the prize in 2005. He has also been awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, among others. Banville lives in Dublin. |
| Book Description | Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, "devotee of the stars and cultivator of the spagyric art," who in the late 1500s summoned alchemists and magicians from all over the world to his castle on Hradany hill, it has been a place of mystery and intrigue. Wars, revolutions, floods, the imposition of Soviet communism, and even the depredations of the tourist boom after the Velvet Revolution of 1989 could not destroy the unique atmosphere of this beaut |
| ISBN-13 | 9781632863744 |
| Number of Pages | 256 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
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