Прага

1990, Eastern Europe, the Berlin Wall has just collapsed. Witty slackers, outcasts, risky businessmen and restless intellectuals cautiously seep into the uncharted jungle of the countries of the former Eastern Bloc, cutting off the scraps of the Iron Curtain on the go, wanting to become witnesses of a new Renaissance. Who won the Cold War? Who won the battle of ideologies? What is youth to do among the mutilated ruins of dubious antiquity? The history of the eternally ill, desperate Hungary is intertwined with the history of a sickly healthy, cheerful America, and the child of their union is a barren void, the "golden youth" of the new century, which habitually replaces irony with indifference. Business and cultural heritage, a bright future and irresistible nostalgia, glass-concrete jungle and ancient gothic, echoes of the terrible history of Eastern European countries. Wounded, but survived. Prague, Arthur Phillips' first novel, preceded The Egyptologist and became a best-seller in the West. This book contains all European literature. Mandatory reading for the "golden youth", the new "lost generation", which will not be helped by anything.