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Title: Unfortunate waste of a significant talent.........
Review: Arthur Phillips can write. There are times as one reads Prague that one is nearly overwhelmed by Phillip's linguistic skill and descriptive capabilities. Unfortunately, this is such an unbalanced effort that the net effect of this realization is overwhelming frustration.The frustration in this novel is that while Phillips has an uncanny ability, through elegant prose, to skillfully evoke the sense of time and place that Budapest was in the immediate post-wall-collapse period, he juxtaposes this elegance against torpid, caricaturist characters devoid of any depth, intelligence, likeability or interest whatsoever. The end result is a multidimensional novel as to time and place populated by one-dimensional characters devoid of any connection to that time and place.Phillips has rare talent. One can only hope he will eventually put it to much better use in subsequent efforts than he did with Prague.
