A poignant reflection on alienation and belonging, told through the
lives of five remarkable people who struggled against nationalism
and intolerance in one of Europe’s most stunning cities. What
does it mean to belong somewhere? For many of Prague’s
inhabitants, belonging has been linked to the nation, embodied in
the capital city. Grandiose medieval buildings and monuments to
national heroes boast of a glorious, shared history. Past
governments, democratic and Communist, layered the city with
architecture that melded politics and nationhood. Not all
inhabitants, however, felt included in these efforts to nurture
national belonging. Socialists, dissidents, Jews, Germans, and
Vietnamese—all have been subject to hatred and political
persecution in the city they called home. Chad Bryant tells the
stories of five marginalized individuals who, over the last two
centuries, forged their own notions of belonging in one of
Europe’s great cities. An aspiring guidebook writer, a
German-speaking newspaperman, a Bolshevik carpenter, an actress of
mixed heritage who came of age during the Communist terror, and a
Czech-speaking Vietnamese blogger: none of them is famous, but
their lives are revealing. They speak to tensions between
exclusionary nationalism and on-the-ground diversity. In their
struggles against alienation and dislocation, they forged
alternative communities in cafes, workplaces, and online. While
strolling park paths, joining political marches, or writing about
their lives, these outsiders came to embody a city that, on its
surface, was built for others. A powerful and creative meditation
on place and nation, the individual and community, Prague envisions
how cohesion and difference might coexist as it acknowledges a need
common to all.
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