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Canzone di Guerra (Paperback)
Dasa Drndic; Translated by Celia Hawkesworth
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Tea Radan, the narrator of the novel Canzone di Guerra, reflects on
her own past and in doing so, composes a forgotten mosaic of
historical events that she wants to first tear apart and then
reassemble with all the missing fragments. In front of the readers
eyes, a collage of different genres takes place - from (pseudo)
autobiography to documentary material and culinary recipes. With
them, the author Dasa Drndic skillfully explores different
perspectives on the issue of emigration, the unresolved history of
the Second World War, while emphasizing the absurdity of politics
of differences between neighboring nations. The narrator subtly
weaves the torturous story of searching for her own identity with a
relaxed, sometimes disguised ironic style, which takes the reader
surprisingly easily into the world of persecution and the sense of
alienation between herself and others.
Doppelganger consists of two stories that skillfully revisit the
question of "doubles" (famously explored by Stevenson, Dostoyevsky
and others), and how an individual is perpetually caught between
their own beliefs and those imposed on them by society. `Arthur and
Isabella' is a story of the relationship between two elderly people
who meet on New Year's Eve - a romantic encounter which turns into
a grotesque portrayal of the loneliness of old age. The second
story `Pupi' - a strange mirror of the first - centres on the life
of a man who ends up on the streets and associates only with
street-sellers the rhinoceroses in the zoo. Together these tales
crate the highly original atmosphere that Drndic t is famous for in
all her works.
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EEG (Paperback)
Dasa Drndic; Translated by Celia Hawkesworth
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*WINNER OF THE BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD USA* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE
EBRD PRIZE* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE OXFORD-WEIDENFELD PRIZE* "A writer
and thinker of ever greater relevance, a voice whoSe wide-ranging
screeds we ignore at our peril" CLAIRE MESSUD "Her work is of such
power and scope that had she remained alive, she would have been a
contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature" JOSIP NOVAKOVICH, Los
Angeles Review of Books An urgent new novel about death, war and
memory, and a bristling follow-on from Belladonna. In this
extraordinary final work, Dasa Drndic's combative, probing voice
reaches new heights. In her relentless search for truth she delves
into the darkest corners of our lives. And as she chastises, she
also atones. Andreas Ban failed in his suicide attempt. Even as his
body falters and his lungs constrict, he taps on the glass of
history - an impenetrable case filled with silent figures - and
tries to summon those imprisoned within. Mercilessly, fearlessly,
he continues to dissect society and his environment, shunning all
favours as he goes after the evils and hidden secrets of others.
History remembers the names of perpetrators, not of the victims.
Ban travels from Rijeka to Rovinj in nearby Istria, from Belgrade
to Toronto to Tirana, from Parisian avenues to Italian palazzi.
Ghosts follow him wherever he goes: chess grandmasters who
disappeared during WWII; the lost inhabitants of Latvia; war
criminals who found work in the C.I.A. and died peacefully in their
beds. Ban's family is with him too: those he has lost and those
with one foot in the grave. As if left with only a few pieces in a
chess game, Andreas Ban plays a stunning last match against Death.
Translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth
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Belladonna (Paperback)
Dasa Drndic; Translated by Celia Hawkesworth
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R345
R282
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"Belladonna is brutal, beautiful, and unforgettable . . . One of
the truly outstanding novels of recent years" EILEEN BATTERSBY, Los
Angeles Review of Books ** Winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in
Translation 2018** ** Shortlisted for the inaugural E.B.R.D. Prize
for Literature ** ** Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld
Translation Prize ** An excoriating work of fiction that references
the twentieth century's darkest hours Andreas Ban is a writer and a
psychologist, an intellectual proper, but his world has been
falling apart for years. When he retires with a miserable pension
and finds out that he is ill, he gains a new perspective on the
debris of his life and the lives of his friends. In defying illness
and old age, Andreas Ban is cynical and powerful, and in his
unravelling of his own past and the lives of others, he
uncompromisingly lays bare a gamut of taboos. Andreas Ban stands
for a true hero of our times; a castaway intellectual of a society
which subdues every critical thought under the guise of political
correctness. Belladonna addresses some of the twentieth century's
worst human atrocities in a powerful fusion of fiction and reality,
the hallmark of one of Europe's finest contemporary writers.
Translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth
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Trieste (Paperback)
Dasa Drndic; Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac
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"Trieste is a monumental feat of the imagination. Impassioned and
lucid, it is impossible to read it and not come away with a new
understanding of the world. Dasa Drndic has given us a masterpiece
that is not only brilliant, but uncompromisingly humane. How lucky
we are" MAAZA MENGISTE, author of The Shadow King, shortlisted for
the Booker Prize "Although this is fiction, it is also a deeply
researched historical documentary . . . It is a masterpiece" A.N.
Wilson, Financial Times "Trieste is a work of European high
culture. Drndic is writing neither to entertain (her novel is
splendid and absorbing nevertheless) nor to instruct (its subject,
the Holocaust, is too intractable to yield lessons). She is writing
to witness, and to make the pain stick" Craig Seligman, New York
Times An old woman sits alone in Gorizia, north-eastern Italy. She
is waiting to be reunited with her son. He was fathered by an S.S.
officer and stolen from her sixty-two years before by the Nazi
authorities during the German occupation. By focusing on the
experiences of one individual, Drndic engages head-on with the
traumatic history of WWII and the Holocaust and deals unsparingly
with the massacre of Jews in Trieste's concentration camp. A
literary collage comprising photographs, scraps of poetry,
interviews and testimonies from the Nuremberg Trials, it is a
formally daring work of immense power and scope. Translated from
the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursac
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Trieste (Paperback)
Dasa Drndic
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