A review by kiramke
Prague by Arthur Phillips

3.0

My reaction to this book is very complicated. My first thought, my first feeling, was oh, how we hated these men in Prague, with their gold cards and their expat cafes and their ivy league theories and their inability to learn anything but pickup lines. But then, the author doesn't treat them with undue forgiveness, and I'm embarrassingly reminded I might want some of that forgiveness myself... And there are the one or two things that awaken my nostalgia, and then the quite interesting monologue about nostalgia... but then again, some rather unresolved character arcs, and a general rephrasing of life is elsewhere, with actual reference to Life is Elsewhere... oh, I don't know, it's complicated.