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.
About the Author
Marija Peričić lives in Melbourne, where she teaches English as a foreign language. The Lost Pages is her first novel.
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organisations, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
First published in 2017
Copyright © Marija Peričić 2017
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