* Professor Wilhelm Herrmann, Dr Helene Barbere-Flores, Professor Axel Stifter, Professor Eric Goldbaum and Dr Ben Staub.
Acknowledgements
I AM GRATEFUL FOR THE GENEROSITY OF THE AUSTRALIAN/VOGEL’S Literary Award and Allen & Unwin. I would especially like to thank Annette Barlow and Christa Munns from Allen & Unwin for their efforts in bringing this novel into the world, and also Ali Lavau for her insightful editing and Sandy Cull for the cover design.
I would also like to thank Alexandr Hartl for guiding me around Max Brod’s Prague and unearthing some interesting historical details. In my research for this novel I drew on Derek Sayer’s Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History; Gustav Janouch’s Conversations with Kafka; and Josef Cermak’s Through Franz Kafka’s Prague.
Thank you also Annette Castillo, Brooke Silcox and Colin Harte for carefully reading the early drafts and offering such thoughtful suggestions and advice.
Most of all I am indebted to James R. Fleming. James, thank you for your endless encouragement, support and patience: without you, this novel would never have been written.
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