Two women in Prague

I thought that what did not happen in people's lives has a greater impact than what has happened. Each of us carries inside a "thing not," meaning: something that did not happen to us, yet it represents a greater importance in our lives than a "thing yes," that is, what actually happened. There are people who mysteriously dedicate themselves to the "thing not" and abandon the "thing yes." I thought to myself: I was a skilled investigative writer, but what was truly important in my life was not investigations that earned me awards, but a novel that does not exist. Each of us has a wound that bleeds because of the "thing not," even the "thing yes," no matter how great, cannot heal it.***Between a writer who decided to live and write beside her left, and a widow searching for someone to write her biography, and a writer pursued by the question of identity, Miyas constructs a narrative maze weaving its threads from paradox and black humor. The narrator does not stand outside the story but intermingles with the characters and events in a clever mirror game, where the narrator and the heroes exchange roles until the reader himself becomes part of this tangled fabric. "Two Women in Prague" is a novel about loneliness and the desire to belong, and about the stories we invent to understand who we are.