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Dasa Drndic - Dying in Toronto, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Dying in Toronto

Av Dasa Drndic

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All of Drndic’s award-winning work fluctuates between fact and fiction, and 'Dying in Toronto' gives an account of the author’s first year in Canada as a refugee, in 1995. While the book is written in form of essays, it is clearly shaped to tell of that year as a story, and the result is unique in both form and content, combining new techniques of creative personal confession and acute social perception, which offer a rare depth of insight and breadth of perspective on the real, difficult life of an immigrant.Examining the instinct of the good citizen, our narrator considers the confusion of the multinational myth of the ‘Nee World’ through her highly refined, critical intellect. Along the way she creates nothing less than the portrait of a new literary figure – the contemporary intellectual refugee – a point of view at once of its time and acutely contemporary. 'Dying in Toronto' is lucid and tenacious, witty and sad, revealing once again the author’s inability to reconcilable with the status quo, and her committment to fight for justice.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-05-27
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 19 mm
  • Vikt: 244 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 212
  • Förlag: Istros Books
  • ISBN: 9781912545568
  • Översättare: Celia Hawkesworth
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Translator Celia Hawkesworth graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge. From 1971 to 2002, she was a senior lecturer of Serbian and Croatian in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London.Based in Kirtlington and an active part of the environmentalist movement, she has translated over 40 books by Slavic authors into English, including Ivo Andrić. She has been shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize shortlist, The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, the American Association of Teachers for Slavic and Eastern European Languages' Best Literary Translation and the Best Translated Book Award for her translations of Daša Drndić.

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Words of praise for the work of Dasa Drndic:'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'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. Daša 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. ― Financial Times'Original, moving and beautifully translated and produced' Guardian. ― Guardian'A literary tour-de-force' Amanda Hopkinson, Independent. ― Independent'The multifarious elements that comprise Haya's story and its grand context are an incredibly dense and potent mixture' Daniel Dahn, Independent on Sunday. ― Independent on Sunday

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