prague

As a Prague native, I like looking at books about Prague, especially, guidebooks. I am always curious to see what recommendations are made to visitors coming to my home town. Recently, I have picked up a DK Eyewitness travel guide, Top 10 Prague. I am really impressed by it.  It truly highlights the very best that Prague has to offer.

The first part of the guidebook presents Prague’s top 10 finest site to see – such as Prague Castle, Old Town Square and Charles Bridge. It is followed by other top 10 attractions in various categories such as museums and galleries, parks and gardens, or even

This book describes turmoil on many fronts. Felix Hoffman, a Dutch Ambassador finds himself in Prague just before the Velvet Revolution of 1980s, his final diplomatic posting. In Kafka’s haunted city Hoffman spends his insomniac nights studying Spinoza and revisiting the traumas of his life. Hoffman ruminates over his childhood past as a Holocaust survivor, escalating estrangement from his wife due to many indiscressions and the double tragedy of loosing his twin daughters. His hunger for truth and understandingis both physical and emotional . The book is very engaging and fast read and is