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Overview"Andreas Ban, a psychologist who does not psychologize anymore and a writer who no longer writes, lives alone in a coastal town in Croatia. He sifts through the remnants of his life-his research, books, photographs-remembering old lovers and friends, the events of WWII, and the breakup of Yugoslavia. Ban's memories of Belgrade, Amsterdam, and Toronto alternate with meditations on the mental faculties of rats, a depressed arctic fox, and the agelessness of lobsters. He tries to push the past away, to ""land on a little island of time in which tomorrow does not exist, in which yesterday is buried."" Drndic leafs through the horrors of history with a cold unflinching wit. ""The past is riddled with holes,"" she writes. ""Souvenirs can't help here.""" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Daša Drndic (New Directions) , Celia Hawkesworth (New Directions)Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 20.60cm Weight: 0.368kg ISBN: 9780811227216ISBN 10: 0811227219 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 26 September 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews"""Undeniable, raw, and mythical... A novel in the documentary style of the German writer W. G. Sebald."" -- All Things Considered ""Splendid and absorbing... Drndic is writing to witness, and to make the pain stick. These dense and satisfying pages capture the crowdedness of memory."" -- New York Times Book Review" Undeniable, raw, and mythical... A novel in the documentary style of the German writer W. G. Sebald. -- All Things Considered Splendid and absorbing... Drndic is writing to witness, and to make the pain stick. These dense and satisfying pages capture the crowdedness of memory. -- New York Times Book Review Splendid and absorbing... Drndic is writing to witness, and to make the pain stick. These dense and satisfying pages capture the crowdedness of memory. Author InformationDasa Drndic is a Croatian novelist, playwright, critic, and author of radio plays and documentaries. Trieste, her first novel to be translated into English, was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2013. Celia Hawkesworth has translated The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugresic, Leica Format by Dasa Drndic, and Omer-Pasha Latas by the Nobel Prize-winner Ivo Andric. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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