Golden Alleys, Fleeting Shadows

Enchanted by Prague: in remarkable portraits the author presents a very special city caught between myths, legends and the modern world.

Outside time, this is how the „Golden City” appears at first glimpse. Thomas Veszelits takes us to places where the spirit of the old Prague lives on. For the magic of the city of Kafka, the Golem and Charles IV shimmers through the facades of a booming world metropolis: on the horizon, Prague’s new Manhattan is growing, with its temples of gastronomy on the River Vltava, modern design, and a music scene in which Mozart meets techno. In a series of interviews with aristocrats, artists, managers, millionaires, politicians and media stars the author takes the pulse of the new era.


Thomas Veszelits, born in Prague in 1947, wrote for the Munich daily „Abendzeitung” for many years before going on to work as a television correspondent reporting from Brazil and Russia. In 1996 he started up a new tabloid paper in Prague. He now works as a writer and freelance journalist for „Vanity Fair”, the „Süddeutsche Zeitung” and the „Rheinischer Merkur”, to name but a few. The author lives in Munich.