The first English translation of a modern epic, a great Middle European novel spanning two hundred years, which explores a world destroyed by fascism, communism and nationalism....Loe edasi...
The first English translation of a modern epic, a great Middle European novel spanning two hundred years, which explores a world destroyed by fascism, communism and nationalism....Loe edasi...
Dubravka Ugresic, Celia Hawkesworth, Michael Henry Heim
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jun-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Open Letter, ISBN-13: 9781948830645)
From the author of Baba Yaga Laid an Egg and Thank You for Not ReadingFrom the story of Steffie Cvek to The Kharms Case, the pieces in Dubravka Ugresics collecti...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Central European University Press, ISBN-13: 9789639116931)
Women are conspicuously absent from traditional cultural histories of south-east Europe. This book addresses that imbalance by describing the contribution of women to literary culture in the Orthodox/ Ottoman areas of Serbia and Bosnia.The...Loe edasi...
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with liquid gold, to highlight and celebrate an objects past. In this powerful and personal novella, Senka Maric uses the concept of kintsugi to interrogate ideas of illness, survival and rec...Loe edasi...
A New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceCalm and contemplative, softened by melancholy humor and always alive to beauty . . . Throughout My Heart, Mr. Mehmedinovic takes up the exile’s perpetual investigation into memory...Loe edasi...
A woman searches for identity amidst the deviation of war and the dislocation of immigration. Drndics characteristic irony and sense of the weight of history set the prose alight. A book for all times....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Apr-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Open Letter, ISBN-13: 9781948830454)
Thank You for Not Reading is a biting critique of book publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promoted because of sex appeal instead of merit,...Loe edasi...
When a writer suffers a heart attack at the age of fifty, he must confront his mortality in a country that is not his native home. Confined to a hospital bed and overcome by a sense of powerlessness, he reflects on the fragility of life and finds ext...Loe edasi...
An intimate work of autobiographical fiction by the author of Sarajevo Blues traces the experiences of a writer who in the wake of a life-risking heart attack reevaluates his past as a member of a Bosnian war refugee family. Illustrations....Loe edasi...
In this masterful final work, Das a Drndic’s combative, probing voice reachesnew heights. In her relentless search for truth she delves into the darkestcorners of our lives. And as she chastises, she atones. Andreas Ban failed inhis suicide attempt....Loe edasi...
