Time’s Magpie: A Walk in Prague Audiobook (Free)

Through the critically acclaimed bestselling author of BEE SEASON comes a travelogue through the magical and historic city of Prague – a city of vast beauty and wonderfully intimate detail. In TIME’S MAGPIE, Myla Goldberg uses her eyes for the sweetness of tiny objects and everyday what to put us touching the essence of this haunting and fantastical place. Goldberg requires us through the city’s historical streets, some eerily transformed by the devastating flood of 2002; to Lunapark, home to bumper vehicles, go-carts, and a discomfiting selection of Technicolor confections; and through Strahov Monastery, where the cabinets of curiosity display from butterfly specimens to a supposedly genuine jabberwocky. We attend an anti-war protest in Aged Town square watching the skateboarders perform tricks on a ramped marble pedestal that once kept a statue of Lenin.