The Golden Age

by Michal Ajvaz and 

Book Overview

The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island in the Atlantic. The islanders seem at first to do nothing but sit and observe the world, and indeed draw no distinction between reality and representation, so that a mirror image seems as substantial to them as a person (and vice versa); but the center of their culture is revealed to be "The Book,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564785785
• ISBN13: 9781564785787
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.0"