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English, Europe, Stories and Experiences

Expatriate Games: My Season of Misadventures in Czech Semi-Pro Basketball

Author: David Fromm

Language: English

Summary: When Dave Fromm graduated from college with good grades and high LSAT scores, he planned to apply to law school. But he actually wasn’t that sure he wanted to go, at least not right away. A few years earlier, he’d been to Prague for a vacation and played a game of pickup basketball there. He was a decent basketball player, though not good enough to make the team at Boston College either time he’d tried out.

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Prague : un puits de livres incroyable dans une bibliothèque

Avec un style néoclassique signé par l’architecte František Roith, la bibliothèque municipale de Prague (Městská knihovna v Praze) a été construite à l’endroit très fréquenté de la place Marianne(Mariánské náměstí). Elle est l’expression des idéaux philanthropiques de la Tchécoslovaquie indépendante. Le bâtiment, achevé en 1929, propose, outre de la bibliothèque, une vaste salle de conférences, une salle d’exposition de la Galerie de la ville de Prague … Continue reading Prague : un puits de livres incroyable dans une bibliothèque

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Prague: a novel

 

Author: Arthur Phillips

Language: English

Summary: A novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune. They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts in Prague have it better, but still they hope to find adventure, inspiration, a gold rush, or history in the making. Source: Amazon

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