Prague Noir (Akashic Noir)

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 withBrooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Chaim Cigan, Martin Goffa, Irena Hejdova, Michaela Klevisova, ? t?>pan Kop?(tm)iva, Ondrej Neff, Marketa Pilatova, Jirí "Walker" Prochazka, Petra Soukupova, Petr Stan? ík, Michal Sýkora, Petr ? abach, Kate?(tm)ina Tu? kova, and MiloŠ Urban. While Prague might today be one of the world's top tourist destinations, and a cosmopolitan capital of European culture, it remains an open-air monument to a history of violence. Here, Prague's top writers explore the hidden corners of the "City of a Hundred Spires," pulling back the curtain to reveal gloom and despair. From the introduction by Pavel Mandys: How to write noir in a city where, until 1990, the profession of private detective hadn't existed? Where the censors insisted on portraying police in the media and literature in a positive light? Where freelance organized crime hadn't existed, but where the largest criminal group was the secret police? Before you delve into the fourteen stories in this collection, a heads-up: most of the stories owe their allegiance more to Prague than the noir genre...but if the concept of "noir" is extended, and considered a characterization of literary works containing elements of crime, danger, threat--or where central characters find themselves in critical life situations--then you will find fourteen such stories in this collection.

• | Author: Pavel Mandys, Pavel Mandys
• | Publisher: Akashic Books
• | Publication Date: Feb 06, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 161775529X
• | ISBN-13: 9781617755293