Michal ajvaz (67 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island in the Atlantic. The islanders seem at first to do nothing but sit and observe the world, and indeed draw no distinction between reality and representation, so that a mirror image seems as substantial to them as a person (and vice versa); but the center of their culture is revealed to be The Book, a handwritten, collective novel filled with feuding royal families, murderous sorcerers, and narrow escapes. Anyone is free to write in The Book, adding their own stories, crossing out others, or even ap- pending footnotes in the form of little paper pouches full of extra text but of course there are pouches within pouches, so that the story is impossible to read in order, and soon begins to overwhelm the narrator s orderly treatise.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island in the Atlantic. The islanders seem at first to do nothing but sit and observe the world, and indeed draw no distinction between reality and representation, so that a mirror image seems as substantial to them as a person (and vice versa); but the center of their culture is revealed to be The Book, a handwritten, collective novel filled with feuding royal families, murderous sorcerers, and narrow escapes. Anyone is free to write in The Book, adding their own stories, crossing out others, or even ap- pending footnotes in the form of little paper pouches full of extra text but of course there are pouches within pouches, so that the story is impossible to read in order, and soon begins to overwhelm the narrator s orderly treatise.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 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 guidebook to this invisible, "other Prague," overlapping the workaday world: a place where libraries can turn into jungles, secret passages yawn beneath our feet, and waves lap at our bedspreads. Heir to the tradition and obsessions of Jorge Luis Borges, as well as the long and distinguished line of Czech fantasists, Ajvaz's Other City--his first novel to be translated into English--is the emblem of all the worlds we are blind to, being caught in our own ways of seeing. …

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In a small village on the southern coast of Crete, the narrator meets a young man who tells him a history of his journey which took him from Prague as far as to the Libyan sea. It is a voyage to uncover mysterious deaths of two brothers: one was murdered during the ballet performance, the body of the second one was found by Turkish fishermen at the Asia Minor shores. On the move, the amateur detective is accompanied by one of the brothers´ girlfriend. They have to work out a lot of traces, clues and rebuses ? seemingly meaningless clusters of letters in the picture of a Hungarian painter, fragments of words created in the sea by bodies of phosphorescing worms, puzzling shapes of jelly sweets found in a small shop in Croatia or the plot of an American sci-fi thriller movie, which the protagonists watch in the cinema in Rome suburb. Such leads send the heroes from town to town, the plot takes part on night trains and many places in Europe - in Bratislava, Budapest, Lublan, on the islands of Mykon and Crete? With the search for the murderer of both the brothers many other stories are interconnected, and they take the readers to even more distant places of the Earth: Moscow, Boston, Mexico City.…

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 148 pages. 8.00x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Zustand: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Softcover. Zustand: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque avec équipements. Livre reconditionné de bibliothèque. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Refurbished library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. …

Zustand: New. 2009. First English Translation. Paperback. 148 pages. "Reading such a world means stepping inside it, letting it infect you, bruise, scrape, poison and obsess you." Jonathan Bolton, CONTEXT. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 13. Weight: 232. Translator(s): Turner, Gerald. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 280 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Leichte Gebrauchsspuren. Kniha prinasi dopisy, v nichz si oba autori v prubehu jednoho roku sdelovali sve sny, premysleli o nich a zkoumali, zda by mohli najit nektere zakonitosti nocniho sneni, aniz by se pritom opirali o psychoanalyticke nebo jakekoliv jine teorie snu. Kladli si pritom otazku, zda je mozne vytvorit teorii snu, ktera by na jedne strane nepodrizovala sen smyslu a logice bdeleho sveta a na druhe strane se na nej nedivala jen jako na pouhy nesmyslny chaos. Kniha spise nez celistvou teorii snu prinasi pribeh o rozeni myslenek v korespondencnim rozhovoru. Uvahy o snech privedly autory k myslenkam na oblast, ktera se vymyka protikladu smyslu a nesmyslnosti a ktera snad muze byt vyznamna i pro jine oblasti zivota, nez je sen.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 360 pages. 8.75x5.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Ohne Schutzumschlag. Roman Lucemburska zahrada lici sled udalosti, ktere se behem letnich prazdnin prihodily parizskemu stredoskolskemu uciteli Paulovi v dusledku toho, ze v okamziku nesoustredenosti polozil ruku na nespravne klavesy pocitace a do vyhledavace napsal jedno slovo spatne: kvuli teto chybe prozije nejstastnejsi a nejstrasnejsi chvile sveho zivota. Dej knihy se odehrava v Parizi, v Nice a v Nantes, ve state New York, v Moskve, na karibskem ostrove Saint Lucia, v sicilske Taormine a ve vybajenem meste Lara. Kniha ziskala cenu Magnesia Litera 2012 pro nejlepsi knihu roku.…

Softcover. Zustand: As New. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. Kniha prinasi dopisy, v nichz si oba autori v prubehu jednoho roku sdelovali sve sny, premysleli o nich a zkoumali, zda by mohli najit nektere zakonitosti nocniho sneni, aniz by se pritom opirali o psychoanalyticke nebo jakekoliv jine teorie snu. Kladli si pritom otazku, zda je mozne vytvorit teorii snu, ktera by na jedne strane nepodrizovala sen smyslu a logice bdeleho sveta a na druhe strane se na nej nedivala jen jako na pouhy nesmyslny chaos. Kniha spise nez celistvou teorii snu prinasi pribeh o rozeni myslenek v korespondencnim rozhovoru. Uvahy o snech privedly autory k myslenkam na oblast, ktera se vymyka protikladu smyslu a nesmyslnosti a ktera snad muze byt vyznamna i pro jine oblasti zivota, nez je sen.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveranderung. Roman Lucemburska zahrada lici sled udalosti, ktere se behem letnich prazdnin prihodily parizskemu stredoskolskemu uciteli Paulovi v dusledku toho, ze v okamziku nesoustredenosti polozil ruku na nespravne klavesy pocitace a do vyhledavace napsal jedno slovo spatne: kvuli teto chybe prozije nejstastnejsi a nejstrasnejsi chvile sveho zivota. Dej knihy se odehrava v Parizi, v Nice a v Nantes, ve state New York, v Moskve, na karibskem ostrove Saint Lucia, v sicilske Taormine a ve vybajenem meste Lara. Kniha ziskala cenu Magnesia Litera 2012 pro nejlepsi knihu roku.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 596 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. Roman Lucemburska zahrada lici sled udalosti, ktere se behem letnich prazdnin prihodily parizskemu stredoskolskemu uciteli Paulovi v dusledku toho, ze v okamziku nesoustredenosti polozil ruku na nespravne klavesy pocitace a do vyhledavace napsal jedno slovo spatne: kvuli teto chybe prozije nejstastnejsi a nejstrasnejsi chvile sveho zivota. Dej knihy se odehrava v Parizi, v Nice a v Nantes, ve state New York, v Moskve, na karibskem ostrove Saint Lucia, v sicilske Taormine a ve vybajenem meste Lara. Kniha ziskala cenu Magnesia Litera 2012 pro nejlepsi knihu roku.…