The Thing About Prague...

How I Gave It All Up For a New Life in Europe's Most Eccentric City

Rachael Weiss (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2015
Allen & Unwin (Verlag)
978-1-76011-263-9 (ISBN)

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A smart and very funny memoir about the highs and lows of trying to establish a life in a place that values beer and potatoes above everything else.

When Rachael Weiss left a good job, Thelma the cat and a normal life in Sydney for the romantic dream of being a writer in Prague she intended to stay forever. She lasted just three years, exasperated by the eccentricities of her ancestral city and its mind-boggling bureaucracy and customs.

In this surprising and generous memoir full of warmth and unstoppable sociability, Rachael attempts to write her great novel, buy an apartment (any apartment!), dodge unscrupulous employers, and perhaps find love. She gets lost in the woods with a Kyrgyzstani software engineer who wants to eat humans, finds herself leading services at the Spanish synagogue with no real idea of what she is doing and spends long nights drinking beer with a colourful cast of crazy, warm and slightly mad locals and expats.

Rich in absurdities and gentle humour, The Thing About Prague... is rife with insight, culture clashes, friendships and above all charm.

Rachael Weiss is an Australian author, currently living and writing in Dublin. Apart from her first two books, Are We There Yet? and Me, Myself and Prague, her greatest achievement to date is her fourth place in the 1996 New South Wales Scrabble tournament. She is currently working on her fourth book.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2015
Verlagsort	St Leonards
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 197 mm
Gewicht	358 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
ISBN-10	1-76011-263-1 / 1760112631
ISBN-13	978-1-76011-263-9 / 9781760112639
Zustand	Neuware