Empty Streets (Dalkey Archive Press)

In a junkyard on the outskirts of Prague, a painter stumbles across a mysterious wooden object. As he begins to notice the objects strange shape reproduced in various places around the city, he realizes that it holds the key to uncovering the truth about the recent disappearance of a young girl. His attempts to understand the meaning of the object bring him into contact with an array of characters, and the stories they tell him widen the vortex of uncertainty that the object has opened. Will the increasingly intricate web of clues eventually lead him to the truth?Empty Streetsis both a thrilling fantasy and a philosophical