Dasa Drndic - Böcker

  Andreas Ban är en författare som inte längre skriver, en psykolog som inte längre analyserar, en akademiker som tvingats lämna universitetet. Medan hans kropp sakta förfaller går han i Rovinj ensam igenom det han kommer att lämna efter sig:...

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Under kriget fick den italienska judinnan Haya Tedeschi barn med Kurt Franz, lägerkommendant i Treblinka och senare i koncentrationslägret San Sabba i Trieste. Ett barn som rövades bort i nazisternas avelsprogram. När hon 62 år senare rannsakar si...

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This is like a fairy tale, all this. A woman meets a stranger who tells her her identity is a lie. 772 (or 789) children's brains rest silently in jars. A traveller comes to a quotidian city, unknowingly approaching her past. From the author ...

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"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 Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, in nort...

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Two 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 the...

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Doppelganger 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 t...

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Tea Radan, the narrator of the novel Canzone di Guerra, reflects on her own past and in doing so, composes a forgotten mosaic of historical events that she wants to first tear apart and then reassemble with all the missing fragments. In front of t...

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