"Winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Scholarship"

"Finalist for the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers"

"Necessary."

Library Journal starred review

"Fascinating and capacious, Postcards from Absurdistan surveys Prague’s anguished recent past, raising concerns for its future amid new global conflicts and challenges."

Foreword Reviews

"Intriguing. . . . Covering literature, the graphic arts, music, philosophy, architecture, and photography, Sayer profiles a staggering cast of artists and intellectuals."

Publishers Weekly

"Informative and illuminating."---Alena Dvořáková, Dublin Review of Books

"[A] kaleidoscopic romp across five decades of intellectual, artistic, cultural, and political foment and creativity in Prague, from the Nazi Anschluss to the collapse of communism. . . . The book offers a magnificent and expansive collection of close readings, insightful narratives, obscure gems, and sometimes-funny, sometimes-wrenching reflections on Prague's cultural elites. . . . Postcards from Absurdistan represents the crowning achievement of Professor Sayer's prodigious scholarship on Czech modernity."

2023 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards jury citation