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A novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune. They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts in Prague have it better, but still they hope to find adventure, inspiration, a gold rush, or history in the making.
- Sales Rank: #784321 in Books
- Published on: 2003-06-10
- Released on: 2003-06-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .77" w x 5.18" l, .64 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
Amazon.com Review
In Prague, Arthur Phillips's sparkling, Kundera-flavored debut, five young Americans converge in Budapest in the early 1990s. Most are there by chance, like businessman Charles Gabor, whose parents were Hungarian. But one of them, John Price, has the more novelistic motivation of lost love. He is following his older brother, Scott, intent on achieving an intimacy that Scott, a language teacher and health enthusiast, is just as intently trying to escape. The romantic hero of this unsentimental novel, John Price lives like an expatriate of the 1920s. He longs for experience (and more or less stumbles into a writing job for an English language paper), but even more so for the great, obliterating love that takes the form of the perky assistant Emily Oliver. Mark Payton, a scholar of nostalgia whose insights are touched with mysticism, seems often to speak for the author, even in his barely repressed desire for John Price. For who would not love the good and unaffected, in the confusion, opportunism, and irony that characterize fin-de-siècle Europe? Phillips's five seekers are like mirrors that reflect Budapest at different angles, and that imperfectly--but wonderfully--point toward the unattainable city: the glittering, distant Prague. --Regina Marler
From Publishers Weekly
Everything about this dazzling first novel is utterly original, including the title: it's about a group of young American (and one Canadian) expatriates living in Budapest in 1990, just after the Communist empire has collapsed, and the point of "Prague" is that it's the place everyone would rather be, except they have all somehow settled for Budapest as second best to their idealized Central European city.The author's way of bringing his five central characters onstage is also devilishly clever. They are playing a game invented by Charles Gabor, the only one with a Hungarian background called Sincerity, in which scores are made by telling convincing lies and by seeing through the lies of others. This serves at once to introduce these characters and allows the author to play with their sense of themselves. There is sophisticated, devious Charles, working for a New York investment company seeking newly privatized Hungarian businesses to invest in; Mark, a Canadian intellectual obsessed with the elements of nostalgia (and finding Budapest a rich repository); John, who writes a mordant column on the clashes of the old world and the new for the English-language BudapesToday; John's older brother, Scott, who despises him; and Emily, an apparent innocent from Nebraska who works at the U.S. Embassy. At the heart of the story is Charles's attempt to take over a venerable Hungarian publishing company, whose history is brilliantly sketched and whose aged scion, Imre Horvath, is a quintessential Central European survivor. John nurses a hopeless passion for Emily, becomes involved with a bald-headed collage artist and listens, enchanted, to the tales of an elderly pianist in the group's favorite jazz club. Mark disappears, Scott decamps and the publishing caper ends in disillusionment.But what happens in this novel is not nearly so important as Phillips's wonderful grasp Budapest's look, style and ethos, and his sometimes sympathetic, often scathing view of the Western interlopers. His writing is swift, often poetic, unerringly exact with voices and subtle details of time, place and weather. This novel is so complete a distillation of its theme and characters that it leaves a reader wondering how on earth Phillips can follow it up.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Just bumped up to June, this debut is getting lavish treatment that seems to be deserved. It's actually set in Budapest in the early 1990s, as young Westerners seek to make their mark in a city haunted by the 20th century's tragedies.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
THE SUN ALSO RISES, 2002
By Dave Schwinghammer
As I read PRAGUE, I kept hearing whispers of Hemingway's
THE SUN ALSO RISES. The novel is about expatriates living and working in 1990s Budapest, just after the fall of Communism. The protagonist, journalist John Price, is in Budapest to reconcile with his brother Scott, who for some reason cannot stand the sight of him. John is enamored of embassy aide Emily Oliver, who is likewise disenchanted (She could be the Lady Brett of the piece if we continue the SUN ALSO RISES analogy). Charles Gabor, an American venture capitalist, is the villain (unless you count John Price as his own worst enemy) as he's in Budapest to make a name for himself by pillaging newly democratic Hungary of its marketable assets. All of these characters hang out at Café Gerbeaud where they play a game called "Sincerity," especially appropriate since practically no one is this novel is sincere.
We catch another whiff of SUN ALSO RISES when we learn that John Price is a virgin. A co-worker at his newspaper quickly divests him of the burden and before we know it Price is involved in a quirky sexual relationship with Nicky (no last name that I can remember), a photographer/artist and the most interesting character in the book.
The plot revolves around Charles Gabor's efforts to loot Imri Horvath's publishing business with the help of some promotional articles written by John Price. Then there's the three-way relationship between Nicky, Emily, and John, the climax of which is the most entertaining part of the book.
The characters don't measure up to SUN ALSO RISES, although John Price has to be one of the most clueless protagonists I've ever encountered. The depressing tone is similar, however; we get the feeling that Phillips isn't so sure Budapest is better off under capitalism. I was also bothered by Phillips penchant for long sentences with intrusive parenthetical remarks, a stylistic irritant that I know Hemingway would choke on. I was also wondering why in the heck the book was called PRAGUE when the novel is set in Budapest. We don't get to see Prague until Price's train reaches the outskirts of the city at the end of the book. Maybe the choice was similar to the movie FARGO, where BRAINERD just didn't sound right.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Criminy!!! One-star reviews?
By A Customer
Musta fallen into the hands of a particulary large and dimwitted book club, or else all the author's vanquished Jeopardy foes are out to nail him.
The book is really worth at least 3 1/2 stars, specially fer being a daybiew.
It's clever and quite accurate in its portrayal of young Americanos on the loose in the former Soviet Bloc c. 1991. Some of the reviewers say they can't understand why the characters act so dad-gum nasty. It's all there in black n white, folks-cheap hooch, sex, an unhinged capitalist mindset, etc., etc.
The book falls down a bit as it narrows its focus to a business deal/scam involving a young Hungarian/'Merican biz wiz trying to take over/sell off an august Budapest publishing house. This subplot took over the book and tended to drag the shebang down for long stretches that reminded of a Michener historical novel.
I would have preferred a more comic, more ambiguous close to the book. Still, better than most of the recent crop of E. Euro fiction. And if you were there or some place like it, definitely worth it.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Good, but could have been Great
By Elizabeth Hendry
There is a point in Prague where one of the characters, who writes a column for an English newspaper sold in Budapest, begins writing what appears to be a very good column. Somewhere in the middle of it, he's blocked. He types away on his computer that he feels something brilliant will be coming out shortly. It doesn't. That is essentially how I felt about this novel. It starts off strongly. We meet five North American ex-pats living in Budapest in the early nineties. Their lives are interesting, the writing is wonderful and so evocative of that time and place. But....the novel kind of stalls in the middle. Phillips gets lost, introduces a character in a very long sequence that just doesn't really work. There is still much wonderful writing and storytelling in here and it is definitely worth reading. Just don't believe the hype.
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