{"product_id":"transfigured-night-paperback","title":"Transfigured Night - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLibuse Moníková\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnne Posten\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eHelga Braunbeck\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vision of late-twentieth-century Prague from an acclaimed Czech novelist.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In late 1992, three years after the Velvet Revolution and as Czechoslovakia is about to dissolve into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, choreographer and dancer Leonora Marty, who fled the Communist state decades earlier, has returned to Prague. Having wrapped up her ballet of \u003ci\u003eThe Makropulos Affair\u003c\/i\u003e, the famous dancer meets old classmates, wanders the city through crowds of tourists, and visits the most obscure and unvisited museums. When she is approached by Thomas Asperger, a descendant of ethnic Germans driven from Czechoslovakia after World War II, she must confront three relationships--her relationship with the city of her youth, her homeland's relationship with its past, and her new romance with this German admirer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written in German and published in 1995, by an author whose life mirrored her protagonist's, the novel provides a cultural tour of Prague. Employing a style as influenced by the operas of Leos Janácek as the novels of Thomas Pynchon, \u003ci\u003eTransfigured Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece of Czech literature, showing that the culture of this nation comes in a variety of tongues. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLibuse Moníková\u003c\/b\u003e (1945-98) was a Czech writer who published several novels in German, including \u003ci\u003eThe Facade\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eAnne Posten\u003c\/b\u003e is a literary translator based in Berlin. Her translation of Anja Kampmann's \u003ci\u003eHigh as the Waters Rise\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 125\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 7.4 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 19, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42696788934719,"sku":"9788024651729","price":25.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/97db587323cb89a555685f5877130017.webp?v=1765007290","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/transfigured-night-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}