"A gloomy feel-good novel about the irreparable loneliness of being human
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
the novel is also a penetrating look into the objectification of women
The Other City Argentinian Literature Series "A gloomy feel-good novel aboutIn 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