Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural and political history of Prague from 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Czechoslovakias artistically vibrant liberal democracy, to 1989, when the countrys socialist regime collapsed after more than four decades of communist dictatorship. Derek Sayer shows that Pragues 20th century, far from being a story of inexorable progress toward some end of history, whether fascist, communist, or democratic, was a tragicomedy of recurring nightmares played out in a land Czech dissidents dubbed Absurdistan.
