David Albahari was born in Serbia and emigrated to Canada in 1994. He is the author of eleven novels and nine collections of short stories. His previous novel, Götz and Meyer, was published in English and won the ALTA Translation Award. A story of his was recently selected for Best European Fiction 2010, edited by Aleksandar Hemon.

"Intense...there is a genuine sense of danger and a fascinatingly twisty plot" -- Kate Saunders The Times "Has the paranoid, hallucinatory feel of a mind slowly breaking down... It's a bold response to Serbia's bloodstained history" -- Claire Allfree Metro "A masterpiece, a thrilling maelstrom of conspiracies and counter-conspiracies" Die Zeit "Kafka for our times" Neue Zurcher Zeitung "Albahari is one of the great writers of this world and we do not know it, or not enough" La Vie Litteraire