Gottland: Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia – $435
by rgonzalezr
Winner of the Europe Book Prize 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. For example, there’s the story of the small businessman who adopted Henry Ford’s ideas on productivity to create the world’s largest shoe company—and hired modernist giants such as Le Corbusier to design his company towns (which were also […]
Categories: Ciudades, Cultura, Entrevistas, Historia • Tags: 2014, Culture, Czech, Czechoslovakia, Essays, Gottland, Kafka, Kafkaesque, Mariusz Szczygiel, Melville Press