Time's Magpie
Subtitle: A Walk in Prague
Publisher: Crown Journeys
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 140
Description: "Myla Goldberg lived in Prague in 1993, just as the process of Westernization was getting under way, the city straddling a past it wished to shed and a future it was eager to embrace. In 2003, she returned to see what the pursuit of capitalism had wrought and to observe the integral ways in which Prague's character had endured. In Time's Magpie, Goldberg explores a city where centuries-old buildings have become receptacles for Western values and a generation defined by the Communist regime coexists with a generation for whom Communism is a rapidly fading memory."

"Wander through the narrow alleyways and cobblestone streets to places most tourists never see - to a neighborhood eerily transformed by the devastating flood of 2002; to an anachronistic amusement park that is home to a discomfiting array of Technicolor confections; and to the cabinets of curiosity in the Strahov Monastery, where hidden among deceptively modest displays of butterfly specimens and ladies' fans are creatures that defy the laws of taxidermy. This imaginative, individualistic journey will show you the odd and unique corners of a city often seeking to erase what its very stones will not allow it to forget."--Jacket.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: 15; label: Invisible City
title: 23; label: Library, Interrupted
title: 45; label: The Noon Signal: A Speculative Tale
title: 55; label: Welcome to New Karlín!
title: 61; label: The Museum of Monastic Technology
title: 69; label: Political Theatro
title: 81; label: Ped Trap
title: 93; label: Visiting the Dead
title: 107; label: Park Redux
title: 119; label: Through a Tram Darkly
title: 135; label: Acknowledgments
title: 141