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Gottland

Mariusz Szczygieł

2006·288 pages·Nonfiction

History & Politics Literary Fiction

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One of Europe's most preeminent investigative journalists travels to the Czech Republic--the Czech half of the former Czechoslovakia, the land that brought us Kafka--to explore the surreal fictions and the extraordinary reality of its twentieth century.

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Gottland

Mariusz Szczygieł

Year

2006

Pages

288

Type

Nonfiction

History & Politics Literary Fiction

Tags

essays short stories

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One of Europe's most preeminent investigative journalists travels to the Czech Republic--the Czech half of the former Czechoslovakia, the land that brought us Kafka--to explore the surreal fictions and the extraordinary reality of its twentieth century.

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