“Can a city define a century? Sayer seems to think so and he foregoes a conventional retelling to concentrate on themes, mixing literary and political, the harshly realistic and the absurd. This is the city of Kafka, Havel and communism with a human face.”
Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century was listed in Michael Conaghan’s “7 Books You Should Own” in Saturday’s edition of the Belfast Telegraph (May 4, 2013):