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02362aam a22003978i 4500 001 0883F564373911E9B7E2BD1697128E48 003 SILO 005 20190328032346 008 180601s2019 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2018025630 020 $a 0307908070 020 $a 9780307908070 035 $a (OCoLC)1038246502 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d LIV $d KAY $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3611.I4576 $b G68 2019 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Kimberling, Brian, $e author. $9 818915 245 10 $a Goulash : $b a novel / $c Brian Kimberling. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pantheon Books, $c [2019] 300 $a 205 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a Eager to escape stifling small-town Indiana, Elliott Black moves to Prague, where he gets a job teaching English. Itâs 1998, and the Czech Republic is moving with increasing rapidity out of the shadow of communism and into the wilds of twenty-first-century capitalism. Elliott meets his students in a variety of pubs and conducts his lessons over pints of local Radegast beer. He gets his shoes stolen by an experimental artist who engages Elliott in a number of eccentric schemes. And he meets Amanda, an English teacher from the theUnited Kingdom, with whom he falls in love. Together, Elliott and Amanda try to make a place for themselves as strangers in this strange land. They explore the dark history and surprising wonders of their adopted city, touring the twisting ancient streets and encountering expats, movie stars, tobacco executives, a former Soviet informant, and the president of Poland. But the forces that are reshaping the city are also at work on them, and eventually it becomes evident that their idyll must endâthat change is the only reality one canât outrun. 650 0 $a Teachers $v Fiction. $9 202478 650 0 $a Man-woman relationships $v Fiction. $9 212603 651 0 $a Prague (Czech Republic) $v Fiction. $9 246763 941 $a 7 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409032811.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012021152.0 952 $l GMPD771 $d 20230210021900.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722060613.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20190403010259.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20190402010459.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190319011729.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0883F564373911E9B7E2BD1697128E48 994 $a C0 $b KAYInitiate Another SILO Locator Search