"The Man Who Lost His Shadow" (short story)

From "Dreaming Down-Under"
First Published:
Australia: HarperCollins, 1999 [possibly available at bookworm.com.au]
US: Tor, 2002 [Out of Print]
 
Subtitled "Thirty-one original stories from the wild side of Australian speculative fiction".
 
Internationally acclaimed author Harlan Ellison recently declared that this is the Golden Age of Australian science fiction.
 
Dreaming Down-Under showcases this "Golden Age" with exciting, never-before-published short stories by the acknowledged masters and hot new writers of Australian speculative fiction.

Editors Jack Dann and Janeen Webb have collected the very best of new Australian contemporary "wild-side fiction" – fantasy, horror, magic realism, cyberpunk and science fiction.
 
In Isobelle Carmody’s dark fantasy story "The Man Who Lost His Shadow", we explore the labyrinthine cobbled streets of Prague in search of ... shadows. And discover that everything has its price.