Prague Noir by Sylvie Germain (9781903517734)

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REVIEWS: "a haunting classic" Madeleine Kingsley in She Magazine An intricate, finely crafted and polished tale, The Weeping Woman on the Streets of Prague brings magic-realism to the dimly lit streets of Prague. Through the squares and alleys a woman walks, the embodiment of human pity, sorrow, death. Everyone she passes is touched by her, and Germain skilfully creates an intense mood and feel in her attempt to produce a spiritual map of Prague." The Observer "a haunting classic" Madeleine Kingsley in She Magazine "Firmly rooted in magic realism, Germain adds her own strain of dark romanticism and macabre imagination to create a tale poised between vision and elegy." Emily Dean in The Sunday Times "...a lot to recommend it.. somewhere between Gabriel Marcia Marquez and Angela Carter." Mary Scott in Everywoman "Wonderful to read aloud. This is fertile, unpredictable country, at once ancient and exhilaratingly fresh." Maggie Traugott in The Independent on Sunday "Hallucinatory, lyrical in the extreme, it's a post-modernist playground for literary game-playing. It seems, at first, a radical departure for this gifted tale-teller but no, this is a teasing meditation on her familiar themes: history, place,creativity, death and desire." James Friel in Time Out "The figure of this bereft woman develops into a memorable symbol: her sudden appearances - on a bridge,in a square, in a room - haunt the book like history, moved to tears." Robert Winder in The Independent "Germain is sexy - in the stimulating, intriguing, provocative sense. The Weeping Woman, like Kieslowski's film Blue, is a book devoted to conjuring theme rather than plot. Plot emerges from theme, rather than the usual way round." Carole Morin in The Glasgow Herald

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