Prague Shadows: Kisch’s First Case

A meeting with the authors of a detective novel set in old Prague, in a unique historical location. Become, for a moment, part of a mysterious investigation unfolding in Prague’s streets and underground.

The year is 1910. Soon the poisonous tail of Halley’s Comet will sweep over the earth. While everyone turns their eyes to the sky, shadows spread below. Along the Vltava embankments. In the streets. In people’s minds. One mysterious death follows another.

Egon Erwin Kisch, the reporter for the newspaper Bohemia, renowned and notorious in equal measure, must keep a cool head. Together with medical student Lenka Weissbachová, he investigates in dubious pubs as well as gleaming salons. He knows Prague like no one else. According to his friend Kafka, this city has claws. And they are reaching for him and for Lenka too.

“Martin Becker and Tabea Soergel love old Prague and let it shine in full brilliance! A magical journey through time into the narrow lanes of the Golden City — and in the company of a brilliant investigator and reporter who does not lack a sense of humor. This is Babylon Prague!” (Jaroslav Rudiš)

Translated from the German original by Marie Voslářová.

· PARTNERS ·
The event is organized in cooperation with Labyrint publishing house, with financial support from the Capital City of Prague, the Prague 2 district, and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic as part of Laichter House’s literary club.