Prague in Black and Gold Scenes from the Life of a European City [Paperback]

Prague is at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history, but few people truly understand this city's unique culture. InPrague in Black and Gold, Peter Demetz strips away sentimentalities and distortions and shows how Czechs, Germans, Italians, and Jews have lived and worked together for over a thousand years. .

Peter Demetz, Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Yale University, was born in Prague.

Demetz focuses on the dark and disturbing aspects of the city's history, as well as on its golden glories...With great erudition and profound engagement, [he] has made it possible for us to come closer to understanding Prague. Larry Wolff, The New York Times Book Review

Demetz seems to reveal in the multifariousness of his native ground...[and] gives the flowering of that diversity its full due...A fluid chronicle. Frederic Morton, Los Angeles Times Book Review