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Decapolis is a book which imagines the city otherwise. Bringing together ten writers from across Europe, it offers snapshots of their native cities, freezing for a moment the characters and complexities that define them. Ten cities: diverse, incompatible, contradictory - in everything from language to landscape.
In Amsterdam every Friday night, a lonely woman cooks for her men - a circle of middle-aged bachelors. In Barcelona, a self-regarding poet tries to capture the essence of the city in an eleven-word lyric. In Reykjavik, an unemployed journalist wanders through the deserted buildings of the newspaper he once wrote for. In all cases, these are cities in states of transition: Zagreb in the shadow of the Balkan conflict; Manchester on the cusp of social and economic change; Berlin with half its industrial buildings abandoned like the Mary Celeste.
The ultimate 'untranslatability' of these cities' experiences is never in question, and yet through these fractured, isolated glimpses - chance encounters, snatches of conversation, local TV bulletins - something quite unlikely begins to emerge: a commonality grounded in the fleeting and the momentary, a continuum, perhaps, of urban experience.

"A stellar collection."
- The Times online.

"Europe is heavy with history and the trace left by cataclysm and upheaval. These are present in these tales, and yet coexist with a kind of wry and knowing playfulness."
- A.S. Byatt in The Times

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  • Publication Date: July 26, 2012
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Lending: Disabled
  • Print Length: 106 Pages
  • File Size: 364 KB

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