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“dasa drndic”

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  • Doppelgänger

    by Dasa Drndic ...
    Doppelgänger 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 ... Read more

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  • Doppelgänger

    by Daša Drndic ...
    Translated by S.D. Curtis, Celia Hawkesworth ...
    Longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019, a swift, biting novel from the late Croatian master, Dasa DrndicTwo elderly people, Artur and Isabella, meet and have a passionate sexual encounter on New Year’s Eve. Details of the lives of Artur, a retired Yugoslav army captain, and Isabella, a Holocaust survivor, are revealed through police dossiers. As they fight loneliness and aging, ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Trieste

    by Dasa Drndic ...
    “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 ReviewHaya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, in northeastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after sixty-two years with her son, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Belladonna

    Translated by Celia Hawkesworth ...
    by Daša Drndic ...
    Winner of 2018 Warwick Prize for Women in TranslationFrom the author of the highly acclaimed Trieste, a fierce novel about history, memory, and illnessAndreas Ban, a psychologist who no longer psychologizes, a writer who no longer writes, lives alone in a coastal town in Croatia. His body is failing him. He sifts through the remnants of his life—his research, books, medical records, photographs ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • EEG

    A Novel

    by Daša Drndic ...
    Translated by Celia Hawkesworth ...
    Financial Times Book of the YearAn urgent new novel about death, war, and memory from the highly acclaimed Croatian writerIn this breathtaking final work, Daša Drndic reaches new heights. Andreas Ban’s suicide attempt has failed. Though very ill, he still finds the will to tap on the glass of history to summon those imprisoned within. Mercilessly, he dissects society and his environment, shunning ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Battle Songs

    by Daša Drndic ...
    Translated by Celia Hawkesworth ...
    An early novel from the masterful Drndic, Battle Songs is an intimate, ferocious account of her years spent as a refugee in Canada during the Yugoslav WarsIn the 1990s, the unnamed narrator of Battle Songs leaves Yugoslavia with her daughter Sara to Toronto to start a new life. They, along with other refugees, encounter a new country but not a new home. Book editors sell hotdogs, mathematicians ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

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  • Kingdom of Shadows

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