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The City and the World
Author(s): Gregor Hens (Author), Jen Calleja (Translator)
- Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Publication Date: December 9, 2025
- Language: English
- Print length: 330 pages
- ISBN-10: 1804271691
- ISBN-13: 9781804271698
Book Description
In The City and the World Gregor Hens considers the phenomenon of the contemporary city and our place within it. Hens travels the world – from Berlin to Las Vegas to Shenzen, from Cologne to Santiago de Chile to Paris – reading, walking and swimming, asking how we perceive the city and how it may perceive us.
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About the Author
Jen Calleja is a writer, translator, curator and musician. She has translated prose and poetry for Bloomsbury, PEN International, the Austrian Cultural Forum London and the Goethe-Institut.
