Michal Ajvaz

Books on prize lists

• Lucemburská zahrada

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  Magnesia Litera 2012 · Shortlist

  Lucemburská zahrada

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Luxembourg Garden”

  Michal Ajvaz · 62 when first published

  Novella · 172 pages · Speculative, Love

  AIAI-generated summary:Paul, a philosophy teacher in Paris, opens by mistake the files of a dead professor and becomes absorbed in a story whose dialogues are written in an invented language.

• Cesta na jih

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  Magnesia Litera 2009 · Shortlist

  Journey to the South

  Cesta na jih

  Michal Ajvaz · 59 when first published

  Novel · 596 pages · Crime, Speculative

  AIAI-generated summary:In a village on the south coast of Crete, the narrator meets a young man who tells him how a search for the killer of two brothers led him there from Prague.