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Border State
Häftad, 2000
332 kr
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Winner of the 1993 Baltic Assembly PrizeAn immediate sensation upon its 1993 publication in Europe, already translated into more than a dozen languages, Border State is a brilliantly realized account of a man in the grip of Western excess, emotionally crippled by a world that is subsuming his own …
Fortress
Häftad, 1999
551 kr
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The Fortress is one of the most significant and fascinating novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Ahmet Shabo returns home to eighteenth-century Sarajevo from the war in Russia, numbed by the death in battle or suicide of nearly his entire military unit. In time he overcomes the anguish of …
And Other Stories
Häftad, 2007
321 kr
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Stories within stories, a few contemporary fables, a hint of the narrative complexity of Borges, a whiff of the gritty realism of pre- and post-communist life in Eastern Europe - these are the elements that come together in a unique and surprising way in the wildly imaginative and endlessly …
All This Belongs to Me
A Novel
Av Petra Hulova
Häftad, 2009
332 kr
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Petra Hulova became an overnight sensation when ""All This Belongs to Me"" was originally published in Czech in 2002, when the author was just twenty-three years old. She has since established herself as one of the most exciting young novelists in Europe today. ""Writings from an Unbound Europe"" …
Words Are Something Else
Häftad, 1996
332 kr
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David Albahari is one of the most prominent prose writers to come out of the former Yugoslavia in the last twenty years. His short stories, which developed largely outside the canon of Serbian literature, have influenced a generation of Balkan writers. This collection gathers Albahari's best and …
My Family's Role in the World Revolution and Other Prose
Av Bora Cosic
Häftad, 1997
551 kr
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Bora Cosic's My Family's Role in the World Revolution enjoyed a successful run as a play, but the film version was closed immediately and ultimately caused Cosic's publications to be for over four years.During the German occupation of Belgrade, a family--including an alarmist mother, an eternally …
Rudolf
Av Marian Pankowski, John Maslen m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
332 kr
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In these two novellas, Volodymyr Dibrova tells the story of how the Soviet system was sustained by individuals who never truly believed in it, but simply lacked the courage to oppose it.Peltse portrays the formation of an average apparatchik. Both funny and alarming, it provides a psychological …
Silk, the Shears, and Marina
Or About Biography
Häftad, 1999
332 kr
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These are the first two volumes of the Croatian poet and novelist Irena Vrkljan's lyrical autobiography. Although each novel illuminates the other, they also stand alone as original and independent works of art. In The Silk, the Shears, Vrkljan traces the symbolic and moral significance of her …
Border State
Inbunden, 2000
1451 kr
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A novel of a life lived on the margins of Europe where East and West uneasily meet. At home in neither his native land nor his adopted country, the narrator writes from a fictional border state that transcends national boundaries.
Time-gifts
Inbunden, 2000
1451 kr
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A mysterious visitor comes to visit three desperate human beings and offers a unique but ambiguous time-gift to each of them. These encounters are woven round philosophical questions at the core of human existence.
City of Ash
Inbunden, 2000
1451 kr
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Although the city in the title of this collection refers to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, the text serves as a universal geography of the contemporary soul in an urban context, built on the fragments of the past. The poems search for personal and historical meaning within the context of time.
City of Ash
Häftad, 2000
332 kr
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Although the city in the title of this collection refers to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, the text serves as a universal geography of the contemporary soul in an urban context, built on the fragments of the past. The poems search for personal and historical meaning within the context of time.
Grand Prize and Other Stories
Inbunden, 2005
1582 kr
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An unhappily married woman waits in vain for a call from a potential lover, and a foul-mouthed mother of seven accuses a war hero of conning her out of her life savings. This work portrays the lives of people so used to hardship, that it never occurs to them to surrender.
Bait
Häftad, 2001
332 kr
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David Albahari is one of the most prominent writers to emerge from the former Yugoslavia in the last twenty years. His serious, understated explorations of the self have influenced many writers of his native land's younger generation. The narrator of Bait has just exiled himself to Canada after the …
Ever Green Is...
Collected Prose
Av Pavel Vilikovsky, Andrew Wachtel
Häftad, 2002
313 kr
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Hailed as one of the most important Eastern European writers of the post-communist era, Pavel Vilikovsky began his career in 1964. But the implicit political content of his writing and its straightforward treatment of such taboo topics as bisexuality kept him from publishing the works collected in …
Perverzion
Häftad, 2005
321 kr
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The tale of a poet's tragicomic last days in Venica; What was the fate of Stanislav Perfetsky - poet, provocateur, and hero of Ukrainian underground culture? Certain evidence points to suicide. But some whisper murder. Some suggest the grand Eastern European tradition of coerced suicide. It may be …
Last Journey of Ago Ymeri
Inbunden, 2007
1552 kr
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In a remote Albanian village, a place of banishment, a stranger appears, claiming to be Viktor Dragoti and looking for his long-lost love. That Viktor Dragoti has been dead for nine years, killed by the Albanian coast guard while trying to swim to freedom, only adds to the stranger's mystery - and …
Fire on Water
The Abyss and ""Porgess
Häftad, 2006
348 kr
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In this pair of short novels. Arnost Lustig continues his lifelong project of creating a universe - at once concrete and dreamlike - to examine the horrors of the Holocaust and the impossible burden of living as a survivor. The Abyss is the fragmented memories of David Wiesenthal, aged twenty, …
Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood
Modern Albanian Short Stories
Av Robert Elsie
Häftad, 2006
328 kr
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Although Albanian literature dates back to the 1500s, creative prose in that nation is very much a twentieth-century phenomenon; and much as the early literature in Albanian was interrupted by Ottoman rule - and oppression - its later emergence was stymied and stunted by Stalinist politics and …
In-House Weddings
Häftad, 2007
348 kr
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Inspired by “Mrs. Tolstoy and Mrs. Dostoevsky, whose biographies about their husbands have now been published in Prague,” Bohumil Hrabal decided to produce his own autobiographical work, ostensibly fiction, from his wife’s point of view. He would write, he said, “not a putdown about myself, but a …
And Other Stories
Av Georgi Gospodinov, Andrew Baruch Wachtel
Inbunden, 2007
1561 kr
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Stories within stories, a few contemporary fables, a hint of the narrative complexity of Borges, a whiff of the gritty realism of pre- and post-communist life in Eastern Europe - these are the elements that come together in a unique and surprising way in the wildly imaginative and endlessly …
Vita Nuova
A Novel
Häftad, 2010
328 kr
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Vita Nuova is the second in a trilogy of memoirs written from the perspective of Bohumil Hrabal's wife, Eliska, about their life in Prague from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Communist repression of artists was at its peak. Hrabal's inimitable humor, which in Eliska's ruminations ranges from bawdy …
Sailing Against the Wind
A Novel
Av Jaan Kross
Häftad, 2012
348 kr
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Jaan Kross's historical novel Sailing Against the Wind fictionalizes the life of Bernhard Schmidt (1879-1935), an Estonian-born inventor. It is a meditation on national identity, the relationship between history and the individual life, and the mechanisms of the historical novel as a genre.
Apology and the Last Days
A Novel
Häftad, 2012
348 kr
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Originally published in 1975, The Apology and the Last Days is the final volume in a trilogy of novels—also including The Rise and Fall of Icarus Gubelkian and How to Quiet a Vampire—about the aftermath of World War II, by Borislav Pekic, one of the former Yugoslavia’s most important postwar …
Tango Player
Häftad, 1994
332 kr
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Set in 1968 Leipzig, Christoph Hein's novel is the story of Dallow, an apolitical academic who has just returned to civilian life after serving twenty-one months in prison. His crime: he was the substitute piano player in a student cabaret in which seditious verses were sung. Dallow returns to a …
Compulsory Happiness
Av Norman Manea
Häftad, 1994
332 kr
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In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, Norman Manea's four novellas create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, fear and solidarity, the humorous triviality of the ordinary, and the painful search for an ideal.
Soul of a Patriot, or, Various Epistles to Ferfichkin
Or Various Epistles to Ferfichkin
Inbunden, 1994
914 kr
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Set in Moscow between the 1982 celebrations for the October Revolution and the death and funeral of Brezhnev, this epistolary novel, through the narrator's reported attempts to visit various friends on the day of the funeral, creates a rumbustious social history of Russia since the Revolution.
