Emil Hakl

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In Europe, taking a walk is a cultural phenomenon having an almost mystical import. It connects physical activity with meditation, silence within amid the tumult without. Of Kids & Parents is about a father and son taking a walk through Prague, over the course of which their personal lives are revealed as entwined with the past sixty years of upheaval in their small corner of Europe.

Of Kids & Parents

David Constantine

Arnon Grunberg

Ágúst Borgþór Sverrisson

Jacques Réda

Larissa Boehning

Amanda Michalopoulou 

Empar Moliner

Aldo Nove.

Dalibor Šimpraga

Decapolis is a book which imagines the city otherwise. Bringing together ten writers from across Europe, it offers snapshots of their native cities, freezing for a moment the characters and complexities that define them. Ten cities: diverse, incompatible, contradictory in everything from language to landscape. In Amsterdam every Friday night, a lonely woman cooks for her men, a circle of middle-aged bachelors. In Barcelona, a self-regarding poet tries to capture the essence of the city in an eleven-word lyric. In Reykjavik, an unemployed journalist wanders through the deserted buildings of the newspaper he once wrote for. In all cases, these are cities in states of transition: Zagreb in the shadow of the Balkan conflict; Manchester on the cusp of social and economic change; Berlin with half its industrial buildings abandoned like the Mary Celeste. The ultimate untranslatability of these cities experiences is never in question, and yet through these fractured, isolated glimpses chance encounters, snatches of conversation, local TV bulletins something quite unlikely begins to emerge: a commonality grounded in the fleeting and the momentary, a continuum, perhaps, of urban experience *'Deca-Polis': Greek for ten-cities.

Tales from Ten Cities

Decapolis

Emil Hakl

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