Guided Tours of Hell

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480445406

<DIV><DIV><b>In these two audacious novellas, Americans abroad find that losing themselves in another culture can be dangerous</b></div><DIV><BR>Invited to Prague&rsquo;s first annual Kafka conference to read from his play about the great Czech writer, a playwright named Landau finds himself upstaged by Jiri Krakauer, the dashing Holocaust survivor whose claim to fame is a long-ago death-camp love affair with Kafka&rsquo;s sister. On a visit to the camp, Landau attempts to prove that Krakauer is lying&mdash;risking his career to destroy that of another.</div><DIV><BR>On the other side of Europe, Nina and Leo go on a macabre tour of their own. A guidebook editor and his besotted assistant, they are enduring a miserable French vacation when Leo suggests a &ldquo;Paris Death Trip,&rdquo; taking in catacombs, prisons, and all the darkest corners of the City of Light.</div><DIV><BR>In these two novellas, Francine Prose skewers Americans abroad.</div><DIV></div></div>