Writings from an Unbound Europe – serie
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19 produkter
Border State
Häftad, 2000
330 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
533 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
330 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
330 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 …
Bait
Häftad, 2001
330 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 …
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
330 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
330 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 …
City of Ash
Häftad, 2000
330 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.
Perverzion
Häftad, 2005
319 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
346 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, …
In-House Weddings
Häftad, 2007
346 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
1553 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
346 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
346 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 …
